The third studio album from the shape-shifting, Brooklyn-based experimental rock band, Getting Killed finds Geese at their most chaotic, delivering an assured yet jarring set of no wave-tinged art-rock missives -- "Trinidad," "Cobra," and "Taxes" -- that are as unnerving as they are affecting. Rooted in existential angst and sociopolitical discord, Getting Killed meets the moment with belligerent urgency and flickers of cautious hope, as frontman Cameron Winter tries his best to make the apocalypse danceable while channeling Thom Yorke on every depressant imaginable. ~ James Christopher Monger
Rovi
NYの4人組バンドによる傑作。プログレッシヴ・ロックやジャズの意匠を取り入れつつ、リズムとフレーズの反復で聴き手をトランス状態にいざなう曲群からはクラウトロックの因子が感じられる。変拍子を駆使したビートは複雑でありながら、歌メロは人懐っこく、それゆえ難解な作品には聴こえない。"Taxes"を筆頭に、負の感情を生々しく描いた歌詞はブコウスキー的だ。
bounce (C)近藤真弥
タワーレコード(vol.504(2025年11月25日発行号)掲載)