The widely celebrated New York rock ‘n’ rollers in Geese seem to have a healthy love for their forebears, and we know this from the cover choices. The band only just played an all-covers set in New York, taking on artists like the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, Suicide, and Leonard Cohen. Geese’s forebears also seem to have a healthy love for this young band. Patti Smith recently wrote of how she “felt optimistic” while hearing “100 Horses.” Now, Nick Cave has offered his own enthusiastic endorsement of another Getting Killed track, “Trinidad.”
In the latest edition of Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files newsletter, a fan asked Cave to name a song that comes to mind when he feels “genuinely joyful.” In response, Cave wrote about waking up this morning, feeling shitty, and then taking a cold morning swim in a lake near his house. Afterwards, he says, he did this:
I put my earphones in and played Geese’s new album, Getting Killed. The first song starts with Cameron Winter singing, in his lovely, plaintive way —
“I try/ I try/ I try so hard”
— and I feel those simple words down to my soul, because we all try, because we all try so hard, and when the band kicks into the chorus — I mean, my God, those drums — and Cameron Winter screams, again and again —
“There’s a bomb in my car! There’s a bomb in my car!”
— all worry is laid to waste. The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water, the music pounding through my body, the caffeine, the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky — no what-ifs, no yeah-buts, no what-abouts, no caveats, at all. I am made happy, and that happiness is entire and incontestable. And all the way home, I go — to my beautiful waking wife — on this, the best day ever.
In other news, Geese recently played a live-in-studio session for Nigel Godrich’s newly returning web series From The Basement, and they freaked it.
Also, Matt Smith is starring in a TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro, and it’s currently airing on Sky Atlantic in the UK. Geese and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds are both playing European festivals next summer, so Cave and Cameron Winter might get a chance to lay intense, blank-faced stares upon one another sometime soon.
