The New York indie rock quintet travels their continent.
Towards the end of the opener, the question arises for the first time, what was actually put into this band’s tea. Because just as enthusiastically Geese make the nervous groove of “2122” vibrate, they also break it down to gooselets afterwards. “We can make love in the endtime”, singer Cameron Winter offers us just as the song begins to ride in a kind of Zappaesque freak-out rollercoaster. Final five loop included.
In fact, it is precisely this moment of unpredictability that made Geese’s debut PROJECTOR such a great record. Because these five can do it just as strokes cool as excessive, just as driving as frayed, you always have to reckon with everything up to the complete dissolution in noise. And so this 3D COUNTRY is also a land of unlimited possibilities. One in which from “Gravity Blues” à la early seventies Stones to the street-dusty quasi-soul including a female backing choir in the title song to the drunk-country swaying “St. Elmo” old root system is exposed without ending up in the old retro compartment.