Geese

From a Fort Greene basement to Getting Killed

Geese formed in 2016 while the members attended Brooklyn Friends School and Little Red School House. The name came from the guitarist Emily Green's nickname, and the first song they played together was Tame Impala's "Mind Mischief". They recorded early on in the Fort Greene basement of the drummer Max Bassin, known as the Nest. A self-released EP (April 21, 2018), the album A Beautiful Memory (July 13, 2018) and the EP Bottomless Pink Lagoon (August 18, 2019) have since been removed from streaming. After interest from 4AD, Fat Possum and Sub Pop, they signed to Partisan in 2020 with the single "Low Era" (January 10, 2020).

Projector (October 29, 2021) was produced by the band, mixed by Dan Carey and mastered by Bernie Grundman, recorded in 2019 and 2020 mostly in the basement. It was first posted quietly to SoundCloud, where the manager Willie Upbin found it. Winter told Consequence that some songs came when schoolwork was boring him to tears, and the band told DIY they expected it to be their last record, since members planned to scatter after 12th grade. 3D Country (June 23, 2023), produced by James Ford, followed, with the EP 4D Country in October 2023. Foster Hudson left in late 2023, making them a quartet. In 2024 they opened for Greta Van Fleet and for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's US tour, and played Geesefest at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 5 to 7, 2024. Winter's solo album Heavy Metal came out on December 6, 2024.

Getting Killed (September 26, 2025) was recorded in January 2025 in about ten days at Putnam Hill, Kenny Beats's studio in Los Angeles, from jam sessions, and produced by him and the band, with JPEGMafia on "Trinidad". Metacritic scores it 89, Pitchfork gave 9.0 and Best New Music, and it topped year-end lists at The New Yorker, NME and Stereogum. They opened for Vampire Weekend in 2025 and played Saturday Night Live in January 2026, won the Brit Award for international group in 2026 and placed fourth in the BBC Sound of 2026. Setlist.fm lists about 361 setlists.