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Sep 29, 2025Getting Killed rounds up the anxiety, desperation, and existential dread of 2025 and delivers it in a way that no other band alive could. Such an adept distillation of a tumultuous era is rare, and Getting Killed is an equally uncommon instant classic that should prove to be as valuable to its audience as those aforementioned indie-rock cornerstones once were in the late 90s and early 00s.
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Sep 26, 2025Not only is it Geese’s best offering yet, it might just be one of the most creative indie rock records of the 2020s.
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Sep 24, 2025In a parallel universe, Getting Killed would be the album that catapults Geese into superstardom. .... This is Geese’s finest album to date, and one that will no doubt find its way on to many people’s best of the year list.
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Sep 24, 2025A computer could never replicate an album as unpredictable as this. “A masterpiece belongs to the dead,” Winter croons halfway through “Long Island Here I Come.” If that’s the case, then Geese are six feet under.
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Sep 23, 2025This is a band living up to their reputation as exhilaratingly free-spirited, not so much proving they deserve all the accolades and fervent fanaticism bubbling around them but demanding it.
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Sep 25, 2025Their strangest and strongest work. .... Geese’s most singularly idiosyncratic music arrives to their largest audience yet.
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Sep 25, 2025That’s what makes Geese’s work so exciting: uncompromising, they look steadily forwards, pushing at the seams of what their sound can do.
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Sep 24, 2025Cements them as no longer excellent imitators of the bands they once tipped their hats to, but worthy equals.
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Sep 24, 2025Getting Killed is the band’s best effort yet. Focused and darkly hued, the album allows Winter to roil and rumble over a varied landscape of rhythms.
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Sep 30, 2025The result is a project that frequently sweeps the listener into a trance, ruptures that trance, and then reestablishes it.
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Oct 15, 2025Geese at their most chaotic, delivering an assured yet jarring set of no wave-tinged art-rock missives -- "Trinidad," "Cobra," and "Taxes" -- that are as unnerving as they are affecting.
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Sep 26, 2025Getting Killed can be opaque, but its brilliance is still obvious: the invention, the irreverence, the melodic knack, the swagger all great bands require.
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Sep 24, 2025This is a thrilling, sometimes confounding album that has an energy all its own.
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Sep 24, 2025Getting Killed establishes the band as amorphic, an ever-growing blob of raucous rock that thrives in the unpredictability it has put into place. Rather than select one of the many sonic worlds that gave Geese this pedestal they stand on, the band decides to dive deeper into their loftiness on Getting Killed, creating a sprawling LP that never loses focus, yet never feels the need to linger too long.
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Sep 24, 2025A carefully crafted and expansive release from a group of young musicians truly coming of age.
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UncutSep 23, 2025The curveballs keep flying through the climactic triptych - the Kid A-evoking eruption "Bow Down", the incantatory "Taxes" and the hallucinogenic "Long Island City Here I Come". [Oct 2025, p.27]
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MojoSep 23, 2025A third album bursting with intense energy and sparkling invention. [Nov 2025, p.85]
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 23, 2025They're a strange band. In places it's as if they've accidently ended up in a room together and just carried on doing their thing, and by some weird magic it all comes together - a game of aural chicken which no one backs down but everybody wins. [Oct 2025, p.78]
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Sep 23, 2025Geese build up to the album's conclusion: a charged and accelerating train ride, 16 stops from Brooklyn into the darkest parts of "Long Island City Here I Come," Winter issuing poetic threats that crosswire Bob Dylan and Van Morrison into a barroom bible-mishmash scored by screaming guitars. It's a thrilling exit point, full of ecstasy and menace, but it still feels a little like dress-up rather than lived-in.
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