GETTING KILLED: The Meteoric Rise of Geese

Last year, Geese released their (technically) fourth studio LP, Getting Killed. And suddenly they were everywhere and everyone was talking about them. This breakthrough album arrived after years of deliberate steps: high school experiments, lineup shifts, solo detours, and relentless sonic reinvention. Today we’re doing something a little bit different. We’re not looking back 40 or 30 or even 20 years. We’re looking at the current decade. Current events. Yes, we’re looking at the meteoric rise of Geese.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Story of Geese
1:44 Basement Beginnings (2016–2020)
6:47 Projector & 3D Country (2021-2023)
9:41 Cameron Winter Goes Solo (2024–2025)
13:57 Getting Killed While California Burned (2025)
16:08 A Look Inside Geese’s Breakthrough (2025)
21:39 The Momentum Builds (Late 2025-2026)

CLIPS & REFERENCES
Geesecast Episode 1 (via Geese on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m3HSmRMiIw
Geese on Sampling, New York City & New Album ‘Getting Killed’ (Zane Lowe Interview for Apple Music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2lhrcMhCnQ
Geese Tiny Desk Concert (Live on NPR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbpMCZTe8c
Meet Geese, the New Brooklyn Post-Punk Vanguard (Consequence via YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_QmGZx72a0
WVCW Interviews Geese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_ywhhTECM
Geese Live Performance & Interview (via KEXP at Home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-hHbQtYOHc
Geese “Taxes” Live (via Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw91e6Nurfc
Geese “Au Pays du Cocaine” Live (via SNL on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7MC6_0a2Y
Geese “Trinidad” Live (via SNL on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGklLKJv2c
Geese “Live at the Blue Room” Album Teaser Reel (via Third Man Records) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JIsJTHGT3Rs
California Wildfires (Today): https://youtu.be/TyH6yeRaH1g?si=sOCmKe8Sfk04DW5I

ARTICLES
Stereogum Premature Evaluation: https://stereogum.com/2323412/premature-evaluation-geese-getting-killed/reviews/premature-evaluation
Five Days with Geese, America’s Most Thrilling Young Rock Band (GQ): https://www.gq.com/story/five-days-with-geese-americas-most-thrilling-young-rock-band
Cameron Winter is Not Kidding This Time (Line of Best Fit): https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/cameron-winter-not-kidding-this-time
Inside Cameron Winter’s Extremely Sold-Out Carnegie Hall Show (GQ): https://www.gq.com/story/cameron-winter-carnegie-hall
Geese “Getting Killed” Album Review (Paste) https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/geese/geese-getting-killed-album-review
40 Best Debut Albums of 2024 (Paste) https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/debut-albums/the-40-best-debut-albums-of-2024
Geese “Projector” Review (Picky Bastards) https://pickybs.com/2021/10/25/review-geese-projector/
Paste on Geese’s SNL Performance: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/geese/geese-snl-performance-discourse-2026
Nick Cave Raves About Geese: https://www.nme.com/news/music/nick-cave-hails-geeses-getting-killed-i-am-made-happy-and-that-happiness-is-entire-and-incontestable-3910610

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