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Okay, I was totally unaware of this band until my daughter started hyping them up recently. She's a music nerd and she told me that in the way that Radiohead was iconic to Gen X and The 1975 were to Millenials, that Geese is going to be like that for Gen Z. Thought she was being hyperbolic, but agreed to give them a listen. I listened to the brand new, breakout 3rd album, Getting Killed, that was released this morning. She's right, it's fabulous.

Here's a profile on the band just released by GQ
https://www.gq.com/story/five-days-w...oung-rock-band

Five Days with Geese, America’s Most Thrilling Young Rock Band

Five years ago, they were were high-school indie rockers on the verge of breaking up and going to college. But between the solo debut of singer Cameron Winter and their stunning new album, Getting Killed, Geese have quickly become a band on a potentially historic run.

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These are probably my favorite tracks after a couple of listens

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I checked these guys out this weekend on Decker's recommendation. I have to agree they are quite good. It's the most interesting American rock band I've heard in years. Look forward to listening to their back catalog.

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^ My daughter recommends checking out the lead singer's solo album Heavy Metal next.

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Fantano really liked it but thinks the last album 3D County was cleaner and more accessible. Will have to check that one out. He does acknowledge that this is the album that's taking off though.

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So weird, there's a pretty successful band named Goose also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_(American_band)

I thought this post was going to be a tongue in cheek thread about them

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This might just be my vanity showing, but I'd like to think I'm at least a little funnier than that.

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Heard a lot of buzz about this band (and Cameron Winter) from Pitchfork and TheNeedleDrop but never got around to checking them out. Thanks for sharing, I especially like that Taxes song. Will check out the rest of the album tonight. :thumbsup:

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Here you go. From the NYT today :
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Naming a band, much like naming a child, can be a tricky business. The moniker should be memorable. It should be intriguing but not inscrutable. It should be short, punchy and roll off the tongue. Ideally, it does not cause embarrassment or confusion.By these measures, the bands Goose and Geese succeed in all but the last category. Switch a pair of O’s for E’s and their names are interchangeable. Get your singular and plural mixed up and you’re referring to one bird instead of a gaggle. Each group demands that you be a music fan and a grammarian.

To make things more confusing, both bands recently released albums and are currently on tour, which means both are doing interviews with various outlets that have to be careful not to mix things up.

Last month, Geese, a quartet from Brooklyn, released its third studio album, “Getting Killed,” which has been praised as one of the best records of the year and helped them land a spot on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Wednesday. In August, Goose, a quartet from Wilton, Conn., dropped its fifth studio album (and second this year), “Chain Yer Dragon.”

Rather logically, Goose came before Geese — the former formed in 2014, while the latter got together in 2016. Both bands have music-school ties (Goose to Berklee College of Music in Boston; Geese to Brooklyn’s Park Slope Rock School). Neither should be confused with the Atlanta nu-metal band Silly Goose.

As Rolling Stone put it, “Though these two outfits couldn’t be further from each other in sound and style, they’ve been inevitably conjoined by name.”

All of which is to say a Peterson-style field guide may be helpful to tell Goose from Geese.

What They Sound Like

Think of Goose, who have drawn countless comparisons to Phish, as a jam band with indie-rock undertones. Says Pitchfork: “Goose have a distinct ability to put listeners in a trance, even stopping time for a little bit.” And Rolling Stone described them as “musicians unafraid to revel in rubbery grooves, guitar and keyboard solos that threatened to never end.”

Think of Geese as an indie-rock band with jammy elements. Their new album “rips open the carcasses of Radiohead, Pavement, and Swans and feasts there, looking up with a big, bloody grin,” as per GQ. Meanwhile, Pitchfork described “Getting Killed” this way: “a clattering, groove-based sound, denying the structures of traditional rock music while following the same volleys of tension and release.”

How They Got Their Names

According to Rick Mitarotonda, Goose’s frontman, the word was nonsensical kitchen lingo from Dam Good Tacos, a Fort Collins, Colo., restaurant where he worked.

Geese is the plurification of the guitarist Emily Green’s nickname. In other words, Geese features a band member named Goose.

How to Tell Them Apart

Both bands comprise four scruffy musicians who favor jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. But the Goose guys are a decade or so older and have facial hair that would make a lumberjack envious. And the Geese members look more Silver Lake than Lake Oswego.

Do Goose Fans Like Geese? Do Geese Fans Like Goose?

The bands come from fairly different musical worlds without much overlap in fandom, but there are some notable exceptions. Trey Anastasio, the Phish frontman, joined Goose onstage at Radio City Music Hall and embarked on a joint tour with the band in 2022. He has also been spotted at Geese live shows.

And earlier this year, Geese was the opening act for Vampire Weekend, while Vampire Weekend’s frontman, Ezra Koenig, has joined Goose onstage.

Has There Been a Goose-Geese Double Bill?

Not yet, though the bands did play at the same festival (Newport Folk Festival) on the same day this year (July 25). “Hopefully they will become good friends,” wrote the music site Stereogum. Fans can only hope. It would be a gaggle.

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As mentioned in that article, they did Kimmel last night. They sounded great.

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Wow, Pitchfork (which is notorious for their off-beat tastes) has selected a track from Geese frontman Cameron Winter's solo album Heavy Metal as their #1 song of 2025!
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Cameron Winter: “Love Takes Miles”

We’d thought we’d heard everything that love can do: Lift me higher and higher. Make me feel brand new. Make my dreams come true. And then “Love Takes Miles” stumbled half-drunk up to the microphone and poured its little heart out. Cameron Winter, the rookie of the year, made a solo debut that sounds like he’s a hundred years in.

You can tell from the way those first notes come out that the bruise is still fresh, but “Love Takes Miles” is like a man holding a fistful of lottery tickets: It makes you sick the way his hopes shoot up to the moon and land back in the dust. Maybe he’ll find love on the side of the road, with the blues syncopation and the juke joint piano ringing like a payphone on an empty highway. Who’s that calling? Sometimes I imagine the people in the song are just absent friends and sometimes they’re lovers with their whole lives ahead of them. Love will find you anywhere, which is what makes this one for the ages. Get a grip, you’re telling me, Who says “a-walkin’” unless they’re trying to sound like Bob Dylan on purpose? Of course he is. Lend your shoe to the young wunderkind, coming all this way on foot. Love will take you miles away, drop you off someplace you don’t recognize yourself, and years later still feel like the first time. –Anna Gaca


They also list "Taxes" at #10.

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I checked out the Getting Killed album and it is not for me. I can’t stand that guy’s voice and singing.

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Rolling Stone picks Getting Killed as the #5 album of 2025. Wow.
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I'm really surprised this album has blown up the way it has, but it could also be a "me" problem. I was never much of a Radiohead fan, and that's the primary influence I hear. None of the tracks make me want to change the channel, at least.

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Love this. Some really great lines in the song,

"Love will make you fit it all in the car."

This Cameron Winter guy really does seem wise beyond his years.

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My daughter, whom you may recall was the reason this thread was started, attended Cameron Winter solo show tonight at Carnegie Hall.
She noted it was being filmed. Only later did she realize it was none other than PTA who was filming the performance.

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Here's a clip on Twitter

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Also Winter's recently-lauded solo single "Love Takes Miles" just got a proper Music Video released, starring Oscar Nominee Lucas Hedges. It's pretty solid. Like the song too.

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Sometimes, it’s better to leave the recording in the vault.

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Tiny Desk concerts are always fun.

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Interesting article (based on a sub stack) about how these guys are basically an "industry plant"

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-a-m...026-2000746265

Doesn't take away the talent they have, but obviously there has been manipulation to get them where they are.

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So they hired a marketing firm that ran a successful campaign?

It might come as a shock to the yutes that the music industry is not a bastion of ethics. Any Boomer, Xer and Millennial has gone through covert marketing, pay to play and manufactured bands. It seems a don’t hate the player, hate the game situation.

The out of nowhere claims seems like a reach. There first album was released eight years ago and are on the fourth one now. I’m definitely not the target audience for the marketing because I only learned about them from Decker here.

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No influencer in the world is gonna drum up this kind of publicity.