Geese is a band that begins and ends in Brooklyn, as a project between friends to build a home studio out of a basement. Their songs are born from the same ambition: make music by any means necessary. They began recording together with sneakers as mic stands and blankets draped over the amps, all within the afternoon following a school day, up until they ran the risk of noise complaints. As of their recent signing with Partisan Records, they are thinking about moving on from sneaker-laden mics and blanketed amps, but their musical ethos has not changed a bit. Curiously alien, yet strangely familiar, the band’s new material is a product of five teenagers whose love of music touches every part of their lives: their restless anxiety about their futures, and their pent-up frustration with their present-a perspective all too familiar in today’s uncertain world.
Their new single “Cowboy Nudes” is out now. The song’s an apocalyptic funhouse mirror, but more than that, it’s a massive departure for the band. They’ve totally overhauled their scrappy post-punk sound into something volcanic, bugged-out, and unpredictable (watch out for that bongo vs. sitar duel before the third verse). It’s the sound of them throwing the kitchen sink toward some of the weirder corners of the classic rock pantheon – Bitches Brew, Ween, Uncle Tupelo, Tim Buckley – and piecing it all back together inside Sgt. Pepper’s garage.
