How a handful of Brooklyn teenagers writing songs in a basement turned into one of the most restless, shape-shifting rock bands going, trading in genres the way other bands trade in setlists.
The Short Version
Who Are They?
Geese are a rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2016 while its members were still in high school. The core is singer and guitarist Cameron Winter, guitarist Emily Green, bassist Dominic DiGesu, and drummer Max Bassin, with keyboardist Sam Revaz joining them on the road. They wrote and recorded their earliest material in Bassin's basement in Fort Greene, and the band's name comes from Green's childhood nickname, "Goose."
Two things make them singular. First, the reinvention: three albums in and they've already moved from tense, angular post-punk to a shaggy, hallucinatory take on Americana to something closer to unfiltered art-rock, without ever repeating themselves. Second, the voice: Cameron Winter sings like he's barely keeping it together, somewhere between a yelp and a croon, and it turns even the strangest arrangements into something that sounds lived-in and real.
Their 2023 album 3D Country was the breakout, drawing raves for swerving between cowpunk, jazz, and skronking noise-rock inside a single song. Getting Killed followed in 2025, and Winter released his own solo debut, Heavy Metal, in 2024.
Where it started: a basement in Brooklyn.From Fort Greene to the Brooklyn Paramount
The Story
Geese's story so far is a short one, but it already bends in more directions than most bands manage in a decade.
The dusty, half-real Americana of the 3D Country era.
2016
A basement band in Fort Greene
Cameron Winter, Emily Green, Dominic DiGesu, and Max Bassin, all attending school together in Brooklyn, started writing and recording songs in Bassin's basement. The band took its name from Green's nickname.
2021
Projector
Their debut album arrived on Partisan Records, a tense, wiry set of post-punk built on nervous energy and Winter's already-strange voice. Guitarist Foster Hudson had joined the lineup by this point.
2023
3D Country breaks the band out
Their second album tore up the post-punk blueprint entirely, running through country, gospel, jazz, and noise-rock inside individual songs. It became the record that turned Geese from a buzzy local band into a genuine critical sensation.
2023
A lineup change
Foster Hudson departed the band in December 2023, and Geese has continued as a four-piece core since, joined live by keyboardist Sam Revaz.
2024
Cameron Winter goes solo
Winter released his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, a stripped-back, piano-and-strings record that let his songwriting stand apart from the band's full-tilt arrangements.
2025
Getting Killed
Their third album continued the restless streak, pairing some of their most direct songwriting yet with the band's usual willingness to let a track fall apart and reassemble itself.
2025–2026
Bigger rooms, bigger stages
The band played the Brooklyn Paramount, appeared on late-night television, and taped a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, cementing their move from basement show regulars to one of the most talked-about young rock bands touring today.
Three Videos, One Education
Start Here
Geese are hard to sum up in one song because they refuse to sound the same twice. These three, one for each recent album, are the fastest way into their world. Watch in order.
01 · The Title Track
"3D Country" — 2023
A cowpoke hallucinating around a campfire while the band lurches between country twang, skronking sax, and full band freakout. The song, and the video, tell you everything about the record it's named for.
02 · The Hook
"Cowboy Nudes" — 2023
Loose, strutting, and genuinely funny, this is Geese at their most immediately catchy, proof that all the genre-hopping never comes at the expense of an actual song.
03 · The Slow Burn
"Undoer" — 2023
A patient, building song that shows the band's quieter, more atmospheric side, and gives Winter's voice room to do the heavy lifting without a wall of noise behind it.
The Studio Catalog
The Albums 4 to start with
Three albums so far, plus a Cameron Winter solo record, and each one sounds like a different band. The blue-topped card is the essential entry point.
2021
Projector
The debut: tense, wiry post-punk built on nervous energy and Winter's already-unhinged voice. A good look at where they started before everything changed.
The breakout, and the obvious starting point. Country, gospel, jazz, and noise-rock collide inside individual songs. If you own one Geese record, own this.
The most recent album, pairing some of Winter's most direct songwriting with the band's usual willingness to let a song fall apart and rebuild itself mid-stream.
Winter's solo debut strips things back to piano, strings, and that voice, standing apart from the band's arrangements but recognisably from the same songwriting mind.
One YouTube Music playlist, an Essentials set of nine songs pulled from all three albums, mixing the hooks with the weirder detours. (Ideally, though, hear these albums whole.) Hit the button to play it.
Cameron Winter talking through the band's evolution, touring life, and his own solo work.
Interview · World Saving Podcast Archive
Cameron Winter, On New York and Touring
Winter talks through life on the road, touring with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and how his solo album Heavy Metal came together alongside the band's own work.
A wide-ranging conversation covering Geese's constant reinvention, his songwriting process, and how being extremely online has shaped the band's sense of humor.
Geese reward obsession the same way their favorite bands do: there's always another side of the sound to find.
The club stages where the band cut its teeth.
The Tiny Desk Concert — Geese's NPR Tiny Desk set strips their live show down to something quieter and more soulful, a good look at how the songs hold up unplugged.
Cameron Winter's solo work — Heavy Metal (2024) is the place to hear his songwriting without the full band around it, closer to a singer-songwriter record than anything Geese has made.
The KEXP sessions — the band's in-studio performances for KEXP capture the same songs looser and rawer than the studio versions.
Late-night and SNL appearances — their television performances are a fast way to see how much the live band's energy differs from the records.
The Way to Listen
Do yourself one favour: put on 3D Country from start to finish, with headphones, no phone, no shuffle. The genre-hopping only makes sense as a whole, and the record rewards patience more than any single song can show on its own.
