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Ian Fortnam

"Not being able to play gigs probably saved us": Meet Geese, the New York noiseniks who found themselves at the centre of a bidding war just as they were about to break up

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As soon as they decided to split up, Brooklyn’s Geese found themselves in great demand. Upon meeting in high school, the quintet – a stylish melange of all you’d expect of a quintessentially street-sharp New York City rock band – had happened upon an appealing strain of angularly-inclined, guitar-based concision (part-Velvets, part-Television, part-Strokes) while thrashing about in their drummer’s basement. 

With separate college courses hoving over the near horizon, the band spent their final year of school cobbling together a self-produced farewell recording for posterity. Upon its completion, at the exact moment Geese expected to disband, their simultaneous debut/swansong instituted a wholly unexpected record company bidding war. In the midst of a global pandemic. 

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