GEESE, GETTING KILLED

Cameron Winter, Max Bassin, Emily Green, and Dominic DiGesu grew up together in Brooklyn, making noise in after-school practice rooms and friends’ basements, learning how to play and how to listen. As teenagers, they started calling themselves Geese, chasing an impulse to make music that felt offbeat and a little unstable. That sense carried them through their first recordings and still runs through everything they make.

Their 2021 debut Projector captured the tension of youth and discovery, its sharp post-punk edges giving form to a band still learning how to translate instinct into structure. Two years later, 3D Country stretched that foundation, swapping precision for a loose-limbed freedom that let humor and chaos feed into their songwriting. Then came Winter’s solo record Heavy Metal, an unexpected detour that peeled back the noise and revealed how quietly intricate his writing could be. Taken together, the three albums reflect the band’s refusal to be boxed into any fixed idea of what they should be or how they should sound.

Getting Killed feels like the point where all of those threads come together. Recorded in Los Angeles with Kenny Beats, the band embraced risk, chasing moments that felt unpredictable even to them. Yet this didn’t come by accident but by design, through painstaking sixteen-hour days in the studio. The result is a record where the rhythms hit rougher, the guitars take on a shape-shifting quality, sliding between melody and noise, and Winter sings with an off-kilter, imperfect pitch that mirrors the instability the band wants to convey. All the while, there’s a tension running through the album that makes every song sound on the verge of burning out.

If the earlier records traced how Geese learned to make sense of their ideas, Getting Killed shows them letting go of sense altogether and not being afraid to see what happens when they push their creative envelope. It's one of the most intriguing albums of the year and Geese one of the most interesting bands making music today.