Geese continue to rise like foam. Last night, the New York group made their debut on Saturday Night Live showing their different facets: the melodic and delicate one with ‘Au Pays du Cocaine’, one of the group’s most viral songs on TikTok, and the chaotic and fulminating one with ‘Trinidad’. This is the Song of the Day.
The band led by Cameron Winter usually delivers something slightly different every time they take the stage. The version of ‘Trinidad’ that they showed last night on SNL must be one of the most intense they have ever done, and it is what made the most sense given the social and political context of the United States.
In the studio version of ‘Trinidad’, Geese embrace their most visceral side. It is a kind of psychedelic blues in which Winter and JPEGMAFIA join their best screams in the chorus, while they swear they have “a bomb” in their car. The verses, in which Winter sings about dead “daughters” or a husband “burning lead,” are equally deranged.
‘Getting Killed’, Geese’s masterpiece, is a brutally current album and ‘Trinidad’ is one of its most significant pieces, speaking of a state of constant danger. The New York band performed the song on SNL on the same day that ICE agents murdered another innocent person in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old nurse.
