3 Must-Hear Non-Geese Songs by Cameron Winter

Geese frontman Cameron Winter is set to release his debut live album, Live At Carnegie Hall, on October 9. Recorded in December 2025, Winter, seated alone at a piano, performed bare renditions of tunes from his 2024 solo debut, Heavy Metal, as well as three unreleased songs.

Even if you’re weary of the hype surrounding his New York band, it’s worth spending time with Winter’s album. Here are three tracks to get you started ahead of the live release.

“Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)”

In Homer’s Odyssey, Nausicaä, the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete, helps a shipwrecked and naked Odysseus. She gives him clothes and brings him to the edge of town, and eventually guides him to her parents. Winter’s soul tune has a similar sense of being stranded as he longs for affection. He sits like a wallflower, like a shipwrecked sailor hiding in the forest, embarrassed and naked. He waits, feels around, hoping that someday, love will be revealed.

“Love Takes Miles”

“Love will call when you’ve got enough under your arms,” announces Winter. It’s the thing that hits you over the head and takes control of the heart’s impulses like an emotional sea monster, but only when you’re not ready for it, or, perhaps, your life isn’t set up for its grip. The track is both wobbly and propulsive, which is kind of like falling in love. “Love Takes Miles” is part of a long journey, featuring our indie-rock hero sailing the choppy waters on a dangerous voyage to find what continues to elude him.

“Drinking Age”

Next, we encounter an obstacle as Winter grapples with adulthood in “Drinking Age”, and croons in a desperate wail: “Today I met who I’m gonna be from now on / And he’s a piece of sh*t, yeah.” It reminds me of the melancholy that overcame Bob Dylan in “Not Dark Yet”. But Dylan was thinking about mortality and navigating middle age then. Here, Winter’s teens are not far behind. But he can’t help but notice a bleak world around him as the song ends in a kind of drunken wail. He seems hopeless, helpless, and alienated. You might call it a hymn, but if there’s a light in “Drinking Age”, Winter doesn’t see it yet.

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