The band played a 35-minute set for the performance series that included “Trinidad,” “Husbands,” “Islands of Men,” “Half Real,” “100 Horses,” and more
Geese brought new life to Getting Killed with an extensive 35-minute set captured for the performance series From the Basement. The band barelled through seven tracks with Emily Green raging on guitar, Dominic DiGesu cutting deep bass grooves, Max Bassin setting their percussive pass, and Cameron Winter’s vocals carrying them the whole way through.
Geese opened their set with “Trinidad,” the opening track on Getting Killed. “Husbands” and “Islands of Men” followed, keeping mostly in line with the track list apart from the omission of “Cobra.” The band continued with “Half Real” followed by “100 Horses” and “Au Pays du Cocaine.” They closed out on “Bow Down.”
The set places Geese in the company of former From the Basement performers the White Stripes, Radiohead, Beck, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Mark E Smith, Thundercat, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Queens of the Stone Age, and more. Producer Nigel Godrich created the performance series with the overall goal of capturing “great performances with the most direct and beautiful coverage possible, both sonically and visually,” he previously said.
“They’ve been put in this jam-band space. They’ve been put in this ‘smart kids in New York who play instruments good’ space,” Getting Killed producer Kenneth Blume, better known as Kenny Beats, told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “They’ve been branded in all of these different ways. And they really wanted to say something different with this music.”
Of creating the album, Winter said, “I was unhappy until the last possible moment. Maybe even still. The whole process — maybe this is just how we make albums — but it’s all kind of a waking nightmare until it’s mastered.”
Outside of the basement, Geese are still on the road with Getting Killed. The band will perform two sold-out nights at Brooklyn Paramount on Nov. 20 and 21 before heading to Los Angeles for Camp Flog Gnaw. They’ll pick back up in New Zealand and Australia in the new year.