2016–2020: Formation and early years The band formed in 2016 while the members were attending
Brooklyn Friends School and
Little Red School House in New York City. During high school, the band practised and recorded material in the basement of Bassin's home in Fort Greene. The first song the band played together after forming was
Tame Impala's "
Mind Mischief". The band's name came from guitarist Emily Green's nickname "Goose". They independently released
EP, their debut EP, in 2018, followed by an album,
A Beautiful Memory, the same year, and a second EP,
Bottomless Pink Lagoon, in 2019. All three of these releases have since been removed from streaming platforms. As a few of the members had received acceptance letters to attend schools such as
Oberlin College and the
Berklee College of Music, the band had intended to break up once they graduated high school in 2020. Towards mid-2020, however, the band's self-produced demos attracted attention from several record labels, including
4AD,
Fat Possum, and
Sub Pop. Ultimately, the band signed with
Partisan Records.
2021–2023: Projector The band released their second album and label debut,
Projector, on October 29, 2021 on
Partisan Records. It was recorded by the band in Bassin's basement from late 2019 to early 2020, and mixed by
Dan Carey. Debut single "Disco" was premiered by
Apple Music 1 on June 22, 2021, with Winter telling host Matt Wilkinson about the recording process in Bassin's basement: "It was the first time we got our live set-up working, so we bought a couple more microphones to mic everything properly so we could all play it together instead of overdubbing everything. It was this transcendental moment where we were all really in the zone."
2023–2024: 3D Country and Hudson's departure The band released their third studio album,
3D Country on June 23, 2023. It was produced by
James Ford. The album had four singles released ahead of the release: "Cowboy Nudes", "3D Country", "Mysterious Love", and "I See Myself". On October 13, 2023, the band released the corresponding EP,
4D Country, featuring unreleased songs from the
3D Country recording sessions. On December 22, 2023, Geese announced on social media platforms that the guitarist Foster Hudson would be leaving the band to focus on his academic efforts, and that the band would continue as a quartet.
2024–present: Getting Killed and forthcoming fifth studio album performing for Geese in 2024 Winter released his debut solo album,
Heavy Metal, on December 6, 2024. The album received widespread critical acclaim, increasing Winter and Geese's exposure significantly in the months following the album's release. On June 23, 2025, Geese announced a headlining North American tour. On July 8, the band announced their fourth studio album,
Getting Killed, and simultaneously released its first single, "
Taxes". Winter leaked the single "
Trinidad" on July 24 during an
Instagram livestream. The song was formally released on July 29. On August 28, the single "
100 Horses" was released and a European tour was announced. The full album released on September 26 to widespread critical acclaim. "Getting Killed" appeared on numerous year-end lists and was named the best album of 2025 by
Stereogum and
The New Yorker. On October 1, Geese performed "Taxes" on
Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In an interview with
GQ, it was revealed that the band were recording a potential fifth studio album with producer
Kenny Beats during the month of August 2025, with one future track title, "Lyin", revealed during the profile. Winter later disputed the sessions, stating: "That's overblown. I want to put that to rest, because I feel so bad, everyone's getting so excited about it. [A fifth album is] not really what's happening – we're just kind of dicking around [...] That's basically a rumour that
GQ has propagated." Drummer Max Bassin elaborated: "To be entirely honest, I want to say maybe [we have been recording an album], but also then I'll talk to Cameron and he'll say 'it's not done. It's not even anywhere done, we've got to cut half of these songs'. So we'll see." On April 14, 2026,
Wired published an article by John Semley titled "The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop". The article expanded on a Substack post by musician
Eliza McLamb highlighting the connection between PR company Chaotic Good Projects and "
alternative" acts, in particular Cameron Winter and Geese. Quoting from a
Billboard interview, she called attention to what Chaotic Good described as "narrative campaigns" which includes creating hundreds of fake social media accounts to drown out comment sections and manipulate algorithms on social media sites such as
TikTok. The
Wired article has garnered controversy over whether Geese's involvement with Chaotic Good Projects is noteworthy, with some writers saying that many mainstream artists also engage with the same type of algorithmic manipulation as detailed in the narrative campaigns for Geese. McLamb herself said that she "[does] not consider Geese to be a 'psy-op'" and did not intend for her initial Substack post to be a hit-piece. == Musical style and influences ==