Geese

Formed around 2015 from the carcasses of various bands from around their native Lancashire, guitarist Matt Gerrard, drummer Chris McKendrick and bassist Lewis Hill call Geese “an experiment in time-travelling genre-fluidity.” Their collective musical background covers everything from Math-rock to retro Hip-Hop, via New Orleans Jazz and big-band RnB, and they’re dipping toes in every aesthetic they can find along the way, trying to distill the ever-elusive “familiar yet new” sounds hiding in-between them.

Their debut EP “Fierce Brosnan” (2016) Gleefully bounds over everything from jittery Gypsy jazz, through swooning 50s pop and bristlingly soulful 60s garage rock. Their 2020 full length "Something For The Weakened" dabbles in quirky delta blues, jazzy folk, spiky NewWave and Queen-esque ornate prog-pop with seemingly wilful disregard for their audience’s ability to categorise them as one style or another.

This deranged genre-collage performance-art concept album is pasted together with weird and intricate lyricism, infectious hooks and the band’s meticulous attention to groove.

With Lockdown cancelling the long-delayed release of “Something For The Weakened,” the band took to recording a number of covers, parodies, lyric videos and protest songs as well as participating in livestreams and other video projects. With live performances likely some time away yet, Geese continue to write, record and film remotely, and will most definitely be back.