Geese review – all hail the new saviours of rock’n’roll

Prospect Building, BristolSwitching from convulsive rhythmic thrills to shimmering introspection, the Brooklyn indie-rockers’ music defies expectations and is viscerally of the moment ‘The last time we played here, we played on a boat,” Cameron Winter murmurs in a rare moment of between-song chat. There are also quite a few boats bobbing around in the Geese singer’s lyrics, seemingly symbolising both freedom and confinement, but right now he is being perfectly literal. The vessel in question was Thekla, a cargo ship turned venue moored in Bristol harbour that is roughly an eighth of the size of the room that greets the Brooklyn indie-rock band tonight. Geese’s rise since that 2023 show has been precipitous. Thanks to the acclaim that met their fourth LP, Getting Killed, last autumn, less than a year after Winter’s solo bow Heavy Metal earned similar plaudits, theirs is now the name on the lips of anyone left with a desire to anoint new saviours of rock’n’roll. Spend 90 minutes watching them perform, though, and you too may come around to that way of thinking. Stalking on stage as the crowd belt out their name in a football chant, Geese swerve any expectations of a f