featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
September 28, 2025
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK
The New York quartet Geese begin their third proper record with a curveball. "Trinidad" lurches forward on blurts of noise and a chorus featuring the unhinged message: There's a bomb in my car!! Getting Killed (Partisan) follows 2023's 3D Country and last year's holiday surprise from frontman Cameron Winter, Heavy Metal. The new project finds its identity in Winter's baritone, careening between a soulful croon and a near-breakdown holler, alternately beautiful and unsettling. Credit is also due to Geese's percussionist, Max Bassin, who carves deep grooves and raises unholy rackets on the title track and the manic "Islands of Men". Getting Killed builds like Captain Beefheart fronted by Father John Misty, maybe with a touch of the Strokes' early brattiness. While the noise will generate headlines, songs like "Cobra" and "Taxes" lend the collection depth and soul that suggest Winter is more than a troubled novelty. In our neverending quest for that spot where different meets good, Geese ride on instantly appealing grooves, and can be a more engaging experience than rumors of skronky sax and Ukranian choral samples might suggest.
ROUTES-cast September 28, 2025
^ Geese, "Cobra" Getting Killed (Partisan, 25)
- Jeff Tweedy, "Western Clear Skies" Twilight Override (dBpm, 25)
- Neko Case, "Rusty Mountain" Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti, 25)
- Bright Eyes, "Victory City" Kids Table EP (Dead Oceans, 25)
- Thomas Dollbaum, "Warlock's House" Drive All Night EP (Dear Life, 25)
- Elizabeth Moen, "Love Takes Miles" single (Moen, 25) D
- Boy Golden, "Suffer" Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter, Feb 13) D
- Louisa Stancioff, "Look at Miss Ohio" single (Yep Roc, 25) D
- Amanda Shires, "Lately" Nobody's Girl (ATO, 25)
- Droptines, "Calling All Cars" single (Mercury, 25) D
- Ladybird, "Famous Band" Clementine (Dangit, Oct 10) D
- Ratboys, "Light Night Mountain All That" single (New West, 25) D
- Van Plating, "Keep Your Soul (ft Isaac Hoskins)" single (Singular, 25)
- Whiskey Myers, "Rowdy Days" Whomp Whack Thunder (Wiggy Thump, 25)
- Ava Hall, "What About Yours" single (JAVA, 25) D
- Colter Wall, "1800 Miles" Memories and Empties (La Honda, Nov 14) D
- Ryan Bingham, "Lucky Ones (ft Texas Gentlemen)" single (Bingham, 25) D
- Luke Bell, "Black Crows" King is Back (All Blue, Nov 7)
- Clover County, "Sweeter" Finer Things (Undercover Lover, 25)
- Todd Snider, "High Lonesome and Then Some" High Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless, Oct 17)
- Joshua Hedley, "All Hat (No Cattle)" All Hat (New West, Oct 24)
- Jeremy Pinnell, "Too Much Sugar" Decades (Sofaburn, Oct 31) D
- Alexa Rose, "Anywhere, OH" Atmosphere (First City, Oct 31)
- Cale Tyson, "Out Dancing Again" single (Tyson, 25) D
- Molly Parden, "Burnin" Semi Permanent EP (Parden, 25) D
- Jr Thomas, "Temptations" In the Eraserhood (Deep Matter, 25)
- Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, "Demon Time" In the Earth Again (Computer Students, Oct 31)
- Parts Work, "Trenton" Parts Work EP (Pintail Rendezvous, Oct 24) D
- Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co, "Wooden Heart" single (Keeled Scales, 25)
- Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, "Contemplating the Moon" Rebuilding (Fat Possum, Nov 14) D
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