Getting Killed, Geese's fourth album, arrived in September 2025 and by January 2026 had become the reference point for where indie rock is going. The band is now performing on Saturday Night Live, headlining Forest Hills Stadium, and playing Bonnaroo. To understand why, you need the album. Here are the five tracks that do the most work.
'THERE'S A BOMB IN MY CAR' — This is literally the first thing you hear on Getting Killed, and it arrives as a gravelly, full-body scream. Cameron Winter has used his voice in many modes: the gentle warble of LP1-era material, the almost-spoken intimacy of Cameron Winter solo work. This is none of those. This is a performance. The album announces its intentions in the first thirty seconds.
'100 Horses' — The funkiest thing Geese have ever recorded, and the song that most clearly shows Kenneth Blume's production influence. The bass line is cyclical and slightly menacing. Winter delivers 'All people must die scared or else die nervous' with the cadence of a weather report. The gap between what he's saying and how he says it is where the song lives.
'Forever' — The emotional center of the album, or one of them. Takes the two most eternal words in pop music — 'baby' and 'forever' — and delivers them with the swagger of a karaoke singer who thinks he's the only person in the room. Somehow devastating.
'Cowboy Nudes' Reprise — If you've heard 3D Country, the reprise lands with accumulated weight. If you haven't, it works as a standalone piece of fractured guitar pop. This is a band that rewards full-catalog engagement without requiring it.
'Get Killed Again' — The album closer, which takes everything Getting Killed has established and turns it into something that feels like an invitation. 'Come find us,' the song seems to say. Given what's happened since, a lot of people took them up on it.