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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Louis Chilton

2026 is set to be the Year of Geese

Geese, the Brooklyn-based band behind this year’s ‘Getting Killed’ - (Lewis Evans)

You’ve heard of the Year of the Rat, or the Year of the Snake – but what about the Year of the Geese? We may just be on the precipice of it.

Ever since the release of their genre-bending album, Getting Killed, in September, the ascendant rock band Geese have rocketed from outsider curiosity to fervid, ubiquitous hype object. The Brooklyn-formed four-piece are inspiring the sort of fulsome fanfare that comes around once in a generation. While Gen Z are hardly short of success stories – Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Addison Rae and Gracie Abrams have shot to superstardom in the pop or pop-adjacent spheres – it’s been a notably more arid state of affairs when it comes to rock bands. Geese, with their 23-year-old frontman and figurehead Cameron Winter, might be the first to truly take flight.

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