Remember back then when we used to have mixtapes?

I remember it as if it was yesterday, driving through town with my cousin listening to the music that the “older kids” were listening to and thinking to myself, this is so cool.

To say that discovering Geese took me back to my childhood circa the Y2K it’s an understatement, in fact, it took me back to my first bonfire after the homecoming win as a sophomore, as I remember, it wasn’t a cool party and I wasn’t a cool kid but I had something nobody else did, I had the mixtape that I had stolen from my cousins car and it was fire.

That is exactly the feeling I got the first time I listened to Geese, I had the feeling of discovering something new and exciting that I wanted to share with everyone.

Geese’s last album “3D Country” brings back that same nostalgia and mixes it with a great sense of decadent future era, from experimental rock to mature and intricate lyrics that resonate with a vast range of generations.

Truth be told, they attract the most diverse and eager crowd with their energetic and performative show that takes you right back to the 60’s or was it the 90’s, maybe?

As they passed through the city of Glasgow promoting the aforementioned release on their latest tour, we had the chance to meet with one of the band’s members in the coziness of King Tut’s backstage.

We were welcomed by Cameron Winter (vocalist) and what we thought was going to be a monotone interrogation soon turned into a rather philosophical and yet pleasant conversation between 3 people that had just met and had a thing or two to talk about.

A fan of Glasgow, Cameron told us that this is one of his favorite European spots due to the kind nature of its habitants and the old timey feeling of the city.

When we asked about the biggest difference between the scene back home in New York and the scene in Europe, he mentioned that his hometown feels rather cold when it comes to emerging musical influences and experimental sounds and that is a rather harsh environment for a new band to thrive in, New York’s constant rising cost of living leaves the young ones without a place to plug their instruments and forces many to come up with alternative ways of making a living.

Luckily enough the band was signed by Partisan Records in 2020 and since then had an increasing number of followers around the world that will most likely contribute to their growth while they experiment with their own sound and explore the boundaries of living at the edge of society as emergent and self-educated artists.

Describing Leonard Cohen’s later works as hilarious, Winter disclosed a few of his recent musical obsessions such as, Patti Smith, Norah Jones, Miles Davis and Hank Wood and the hammerheads which have been keeping him company lately as Geese moves from city to city showing up for their sell-out shows across the old continent.

Before we said goodbye to Cameron and headed downstairs for what proved to be a memorable and intimate show, we left him with a note of hopeful excitement for the future as we expect to keep on coming to watch the band live in their favorite city, at their favorite venue.

I found one of this generation’s gold nuggets in one of their last album songs “I See Myself” undoubtedly their piéce de résistance to date and with this I would like to welcome you to the Geese era.

words Steb Castells

photography Kashif Saghar