Nick Cave praises Geese’s new album ‘Getting Killed’: “My god, those drums”
Nick Cave has expressed his love for on-the-rise New York band Geese, joining the likes of Cillian Murphy and Patti Smith who have publicly endorsed the band.
The praise came via way of Cave’s online blog. First, he wrote about an early morning dip with great emotion. After his swim, he grabbed a coffee, walked across the park, and “put my earphones in and played Geese’s new album, Getting Killed.”
He continued, “The first song starts with Cameron Winter singing, in his lovely, plaintive way “I try/ I try/ I try so hard” and I feel those simple words down to my soul, because we all try, because we all try so hard.”
The musician and novelist continued, “and when the band kicks into the chorus – I mean, my God, those drums – and Cameron Winter screams, again and again –“There’s a bomb in my car! There’s a bomb in my car!” all worry is laid to waste.”
Here, Cave describes the opener on their latest album. The track, ‘Trinidad’, is an explosive, ferocious alt-rock track which defies the normative structure of a rock song. The band played it recently in their From The Basement set, with Emily Green’s impressive guitar work reaching a fever pitch.
Cave finished his rumination: “he endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water, the music pounding through my body, the caffeine, the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky – no what-ifs, no yeah-buts, no what-abouts, no caveats, at all.“
Happily, he wrote, “I am made happy, and that happiness is entire and incontestable. And all the way home, I go—to my beautiful waking wife – on this, the best day ever.”
In a previous Red Hand Files in April, Cave heaped praise upon Winter’s solo album, Heavy Metal, writing in his newsletter, “I listened to Cameron Winter’s startling, wigged-out album, ‘Heavy Metal’. A glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing – ‘Today, I met who I’m gonna be from now on / And he’s a piece of shit’. Amazing.”
Geese are currently at the tail end of their 2025 North American tour. They have only a handful more shows to go, including two sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Paramount, and an appearance at Camp Flog Gnaw in Los Angeles.
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