Geese: Getting Killed (clear vinyl) [PARTISAN]

Why you'll love it

Clear vinyl from Partisan of the Brooklyn band's fourth album, their first as a four-piece. It was made in Los Angeles with producer Kenneth Blume and has "Taxes" and "Trinidad," two of the most talked-about rock songs of the year.

This edition

• Clear vinyl
• Partisan / Play It Again Sam pressing (cat# PTPS60LP)
• Eleven tracks, five on Side A and six on Side B

About the album

Geese started as teenagers in Brooklyn and have spent the years since refusing to make the same record twice. Getting Killed is their first as a quartet, after guitarist Foster Hudson left to go back to school, and it arrived just a month after singer Cameron Winter's solo album Heavy Metal turned a lot of heads. They recorded it in January 2025 at Kenneth Blume's Putnam Hill studio in Los Angeles, and Blume's love of odd textures and rough edges fits the band perfectly.

Winter sings like a man who has just remembered something terrible and finds it a bit funny, and the band swings from loose, Stones-ish rock to choirs, strange percussion and sudden bursts of noise. "Trinidad" opens with a shout, "Taxes" is a strutting, hook-heavy single, "Au Pays Du Cocaine" drifts into something close to a ballad, and "Long Island City Here I Come" closes the record in a glorious mess. It is the sound of a young band taking big swings and connecting with most of them. Do not let the title put you off. Nobody actually gets killed.

Tracklist

Listen

On Partisan / Play It Again Sam (cat# PTPS60LP), first out in 2025.