Flashback to the Winter 2024 edition of Creem (which had the great title of “You Either Die a Punk or Live Long Enough to Become Classic Rock”) and an article by Zachary Lipez called “An American Band (Someone Please Tell America).”  This was a fairly long-form article and was a great band profile of Geese, an interesting story about his interactions with them and also an amusing takedown of Greta Van Fleet (I know…I’ve got it coming to me for even thinking it was amusing…those Fleetsters are everywhere!).   Lipez spends part of his article detailing how different and unusual much of the music that Geese perform is and that of course sent me directly to checking it out.  I picked up 3D County and hit play.

I have to warn you, or give you a bit of heads up anyway…no matter what your initial reaction is as the first track of that album (“2122”) plays just keep listening.  If your experience is anything like mine at the end of a complete run through of 3D County you may think “Well that was interesting…pretty good…a little weird, good though,” and then continue on with other things.  Soon though, you will find yourself thinking about some moments on that album;  interesting hooks, bizarre sounds, quirky arrangements…that sort of stuff and you will have to go back and listen to it again…and again…you get the picture.  It is really that good.  

So then we have this upcoming album Getting Killed, set to drop on September 26th and which currently has two tracks out that you can listen to and purchase / pre-order (if you are so inclined).  “Trinidad” will definitely give you some strange vibes with its discordant instruments underpinned by a wonderfully groovy rhythm section and changing vocal patterns.  It is a stunner of a song and makes me think that this upcoming album has a lot of promise.  

You can check out more of the music and information on the Bandcamp page https://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/getting-killed

Musicians on this are: Cameron Winter (vocals), Dominic DiGesu (bass), Max Bassin (drums) and Emily Green (guitar).

And if you have the inclination …think about purchasing it if you can as steaming music does not pay well even times a thousand. 

Our communities are great places to get to know each other 🙂