3D Country

the take

Fun as hell, I feel alive. Replay value is an understatement: I’ve been obsessed with Geese and this album in particular for a year straight at this point and it just keeps getting worse…or better. It genuinely doesn’t get boring or repetitive. At all. I’ve been hearing and reading any possible discourse about these guys’ music and while I understand the people who keep pointing out how heavily influenced it is, I truly fail to see the issue. I’ve repeatedly fallen into rabbit holes about the members’ music tastes (Max Bassin’s spotify is a fucking mine of gold) and being able to hear so many different artists into a single band’s work is exhilarating. It made me fall in love with music all over again. But having said that, while I can agree with the fact that this album is nothing necessarily groundbreaking in terms of influence or nuances, I’m still convinced that there is one very important aspect to Geese’s music that makes it stand out in a really prominent way from the majority of today’s younger generation of artists: Cameron Winter’s voice, or rather, the absurd ways in which he chooses to use it. Not only the man (20ish year old man, btw) has a naturally very good tone, not only he clearly learned to work it very well on a purely technical level, but he constantly chooses to have fun with it in a way that - at least to me - doesn’t sound forced or pretentious at all, just extremely unique and entertaining and verrrrrryyy fun to (try and) sing along to in the car. I’ve never been this excited about a band’s future before, I don’t know if you can tell. The kids are SO okay, if you ask me.