Getting Killed is the sound of a band kicking the saloon doors off their own mythology and stumbling gloriously into the night. Wild, warped, swaggering and strangely soulful, the latest record from Geese doesn’t just cement them as one of the most exciting young bands on the planet, it feels like the moment everything truly clicks into focus.
Our NUMBER ONE RECORD OF 2025. No hesitation. No committee meeting. No “grower” caveat. This thing grabbed us by the collar from the first spin and never let go.
Where earlier Geese releases hinted at chaos and ambition, Getting Killed fully weaponises both. Glam rock collapses into art-punk, barroom piano stumbles into distorted freakouts, and frontman Cameron Winter delivers every line like he’s half preacher, half beautiful disaster. The band sound loose in the best possible way, songs stretching and swerving as if they’re discovering themselves in real time. And yet underneath all the glorious mess sits razor-sharp songwriting and absurd musical chemistry.
There are ghosts in here too. You’ll catch flashes of The Rolling Stones at their sleaziest, Lou Reed at his most sardonic, maybe even the chaotic theatre-kid energy of early David Bowie. But Geese never feel trapped in revivalism. Everything about Getting Killed feels thrillingly alive, like a band trying to outrun their own instincts and somehow making magic in the process.
It’s messy. Sexy. Smart. Funny. Occasionally unhinged. Exactly the kind of rock record we live for at Waxx Lyrical.
The kind of album that reminds you guitar music still has blood in its teeth.
TRACKS:
- 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
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