Geese land as “Static” Listeners’ Favourite Album of 2025
On 2SER’s “Static” we rolled out our listener-picked Top 10 Albums of 2025.
Thanks to everyone who voted!
Top spot this year goes to Brooklyn’s shapeshifting rock guys Geese, for their third album “Getting Killed”.
This is their first placing in our Top Ten – their previous records “Projector” (2021) and “3D Country” (2023) both missed out completely.
It’s been a banner year for the New York buzz band, who started out as teenagers – they’ve gotten weirder and grown up over the course of three albums, with an organic word-of-mouth excitement about them turning the group into a genuine generational phenomenon.
They made “Getting Killed” in Los Angeles with hip hop producer Kenny Beats, and went all-in – supposedly the band spent one session selecting a single handclap sample, from a folder of roughly 7,000 options.
Musically it was an explosive record, with the jagged guitars and frantic polyrhythmic percussion on songs like “Trinidad” and “Bow Down” lending the album an urgent, end-of-days edge. At the same time, the group’s ability to switch into swaying boogie-rock and bent gospel-funk on cuts like “Husbands” and “Au Pays du Cocaine” brought a cathartic, shimmying release to proceedings.
Front and centre of all this was captivating frontman Cameron Winter‘s croonsome vocal delivery, which crash-landed somewhere between Van Morrison and Dean & Gene Ween. After releasing his debut solo album “Heavy Metal” at the end of 2024, Cameron seemed to find his voice and angle – his seemingly stream-of-consciousness lyrics dropping pearls of wisdom and late-night revelations as non sequiturs, like a man wiser and weirder beyond his years. It seemed no accident that two songs on “Getting Killed” made allusions to him being a sailor in a boat, as he steered the good ship Geese through the choppy waters of his busy inner monologue. As he confessed in the song “Half Real” – “There’s something in the back of my mind … And the front of my mind too”.
When we spoke to Max and Dom from the band here on the show in 2023 they explained that they initially thought some of Cameron’s odder word-salad lyrics were simply placeholders, and would be changed closer to release date. “It’s always a surprise watching him go in there and seeing what he’s going to do”, said Dom.
Both Geese and Cameron Winter will perform sold-out Sydney shows in February, which will only add to the excitement bubbling around this year’s poll winners – we can’t wait to take a gander at how these songs translate live in front of a rabid audience.
It all added up to a killer #1 album in “Getting Killed”, and we all flocked to Geese this year!
1. GEESE “Getting Killed” (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
2. BIG THIEF “Double Infinity” (4AD/Remote Control)
3. WEDNESDAY “Bleeds” (Dead Oceans)
4. CASS McCOMBS “Interior Live Oak” (Domino)
Listen to the “Static” interview with Cass McCombs here.
5. SHARON VAN ETTEN and THE ATTACHMENT THEORY “Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory” (Jagjaguwar)
6. WATER FROM YOUR EYES “It’s A Beautiful Place” (Matador/Remote Control)
Listen to the “Static” interview with Water From Your Eyes here.
7. dust “Sky Is Falling” (Virgin)
Listen to the “Static” guest-program by dust here.
8. MARIA SOMERVILLE “Luster” (4AD/Remote Control)
9. MARLON WILLIAMS “Te Whare Tīwekaweka” (Secretly)
10. FLOODLIGHTS “Underneath” ([PIAS])
Listen to the “Static” interview with Floodlights here.