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Nick Cave Endorses Geese's New Song Trinidad
In the grand, often cyclical theater of rock 'n' roll, the torch is not so much passed as it is seized, often with the blessing of the very giants whose shoulders the new generation stands upon. This time, the flame burns brightly for Geese, the New York rock 'n' rollers whose recent all-covers set in their hometown—a blistering run through the sacred texts of The Stooges, the Velvet Underground, Suicide, and the profound Leonard Cohen—was less an act of mere homage and more a declaration of lineage, a statement of intent that they understand the raw, unvarnished soul from which this music springs.That understanding has not gone unnoticed in the higher echelons of the genre. First, it was the punk poetess Patti Smith herself, who recently wrote of feeling a surge of optimism while listening to their track '100 Horses,' a sentiment that carries the weight of prophecy from an artist who has always seen music as a force for spiritual renewal.Now, arriving like a thunderclap from the Bad Seeds camp, comes the formidable endorsement of Nick Cave, who has offered his own enthusiastic benediction for another cut from their critically lauded album 'Getting Killed'—the track 'Trinidad. ' This isn't merely a celebrity co-sign; it's a coronation.For Cave, an artist whose career has been a long, dark night of the soul punctuated by moments of transcendent grace, to lend his voice to a young band signifies a recognition of a shared artistic DNA, a recognition of that same dangerous, spiritual energy that has powered his own work for decades. Geese's music, particularly a track like 'Trinidad,' operates with a similar atmospheric pressure—it’s not just a song, but a world built from tension and release, from jangling, nervous guitar lines that coil like springs, and a vocal delivery that feels both urgent and world-weary.To have Cave, a man who has duetted with the ghost of Kylie Minogue and stared down the abyss in 'The Mercy Seat,' hear something of his own quest in their sound is the kind of validation that cannot be bought or manufactured. It echoes the moment a young Bruce Springsteen was hailed by a weary John Hammond, or when The Strokes were anointed by Tom Petty.This is the sound of the old guard not just approving, but actively listening, finding in the new noise the familiar echoes of their own revolutions. For Geese, this places them squarely in a rarefied pantheon of bands who have managed to capture the attention of their idols not through imitation, but through evolution, by taking the foundational elements of post-punk, art-rock, and garage and forging something that feels both timeless and desperately of-the-moment.The cover set was their thesis; the endorsement from Smith and Cave is their doctorate. As the needle drops on 'Trinidad' with this new context, you can almost hear the gears of rock history turning, the lineage being written in real-time, proving that the most powerful music doesn't just sound good—it gets passed down, from one generation of true believers to the next.
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