Golden Geese
So I've been good and have been biting my tongue, not joining in the feeding frenzy over the band Geese for a whole week. Actually, for a while longer than that. But I can't resist anymore. I'm reasonably plugged in to new music (as you might have figured out by the fact that this is not my first rant about such things) and it was hard to miss Geese so yeah, I've been listening to them and trying them out for quite a while. It took a while but they grew on me (it was not love at first sight, it was also not eww-skip). You can detect some DNA from The Strokes, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and so on. There's a bit of a Black Country New Road vibe, which I loved when Isaac Wood was still the lead singer, bless his heart. But it's pretty original, and it is most definitely real music, not AI-generated or assembly-line-produced drivel, which is becoming something in itself. But I also have this kind-of snobby affectation that I like to know about bands before ev...