Nick Cave has hailed Geese‘s new album ‘Getting Killed‘ as music that makes him feel “happy”.
The Australian rocker praised the cult New York band on his website The Red Hand Files, where he was asked by a reader what song “comes to mind when you are genuinely joyful”.
In response, Cave wrote that he had gotten up at 5am that morning after feeling restless from all the “what-ifs, and yeah-buts, and what-abouts swirling around in my mind”. After swimming in the icy-cold lake in a nearby park, Cave wrote about the album he listened to after getting dressed, buying a coffee and walking back.
“I put my earphones in and played Geese’s new album, ‘Getting Killed’,” Cave wrote. “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.
“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,” Cave continued. “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.”
Cave has previously praised frontman Cameron Winter’s solo album, writing: “I listened to Cameron Winter’s startling, wigged-out album, ‘Heavy Metal’. A glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing – ‘Today, I met who I’m gonna be from now on / And he’s a piece of shit’. Amazing.”
‘Getting Killed’ is the New York band’s latest album; it’s garnered them near-universal acclaim and huge breakthrough success since they starred on NME‘s Cover in 2023. We gave ‘Getting Killed’ a five-star review, writing: “This 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”.
The band will visit the UK next year for a set of huge shows. Having already announced gigs in Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and London, Geese went on to add two extra concerts in Glasgow and London due to high demand. See all dates below and get any tickets to remaining shows here:
Geese’s 2026 UK headline tour dates are:
MARCH
20 – Electric Bristol, Bristol
21 – SWG3 (TV Studio), Glasgow
22 – Project House, Leeds
24 – New Century Hall, Manchester
25 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
AUGUST
26 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
SEPTEMBER
01 – Troxy, London
Elsewhere, Matt Smith has spoken about working with Nick Cave on the television adaptation of The Death Of Bunny Munro and his summer of Oasis fun.
