Geese have announced their third studio album, ‘Getting Killed’ – listen to lead single ‘Taxes’ below.
The NYC rock group and former NME Cover stars will release the follow-up to 2023’s ‘3D Country’ on September 26 via Partisan. Pre-order/pre-save here.
According to a press release, the 11-track record “obliterates any expectations the band has set with their discography to date”.
“After lighting the fuse with the beguiling post-punk experiments of their 2021 debut album ‘Projector’ and the rollicking cowboy rock record follow-up of 2023’s 3’D Country’, ‘Getting Killed’ examines the wreckage of blowing up those ideas and picking up the pieces to form their own bold and exacting vision,” it adds.
The forthcoming LP was recorded with renowned producer Kenny Beats (aka Kenneth Blume) in his LA studio over a month. Geese emerged from these sessions with “a chaotic comedy of epic proportions”.
“‘Getting Killed’ balances a disarming new tenderness with an intensified anger, with each member of the band wielding an earned, unshakeable confidence and a hearty disdain of conventional music structures,” the description states.
First single ‘Taxes’ was produced by Geese along with Kenny Beats. The meditative track kicks off with some tribal drumming, as frontman Cameron Winter croons: “I should burn in hell/ But I don’t deserve this, nobody deserves this.”
‘Taxes’ then introduces some acoustic guitar, which is backed by some eerie backing vocal samples.
“If you want me to pay my taxes/ You better come over with a crucifix/ You’re gonna have to nail me down,” Winter adds, before the track opens up into a bright and euphoric instrumental. Watch the official music video above.
Other song titles on ‘Getting Killed’ include ‘Trinidad’, ‘Husbands’, ‘Islands Of Men’, ‘Au Pays du Cocaine’ and ‘Long Island City Here I Come’. Check out the cover artwork and full tracklist below.
- ‘Trinidad’
- ‘Cobra’
- ‘Husbands’
- ‘Getting Killed’
- ‘Islands Of Men’
- ‘100 Horses’
- ‘Half Real’
- ‘Au Pays du Cocaine’
- ‘Bow Down’
- ‘Taxes’
- ‘Long Island City Here I Come’
The announcement comes after Geese announced their 2025 North American ‘Getting Killed’ tour, which kicks off in October. See the full schedule below, and find any remaining tickets here.
Cameron Winter released his acclaimed debut solo album, ‘Heavy Metal’, last December. Geese’s ‘3D Country’ had previously appeared on NME‘s 50 best albums of 2023 list, which hailed “a sound far more expansive than most bands at this stage of their career”.
Speaking to NME about the record that year, Geese explained that they were “always going to shift focus, no matter our situation”. Guitarist Emily Green added: “We just get bored of the old shit.”
Drummer Max Bassin agreed: “A lot of what we do is trying not to repeat ourselves musically. The themes for ‘Projector’ are very different from ‘3D Country’, and the next record will also change.
“It is a matter of us sitting with something for so long that there’s been ample time to feel every kind of way about it, so that by the time the album comes out and we’re playing it live, it’s a different beast.”
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