Between Giant Fires

Geese “Mysterious Love”

Cameron Winter sings like a guy totally in love with cool rock voices and is trying to inhabit as many of them as possible from moment to moment in any Geese song. Take “Mysterious Love” – from one line to another, he’s a little Mick Jagger, he’s a little Thurston Moore, he’s a little Lou Reed, he’s a little Jack White, he’s a tiny bit Tom Verlaine and Jarvis Cocker. He’s pulling from a lot of sources but the goal is emboding “cool rock guy,” a person with a lot of attitude who knows what’s up, who knows how to have a good time, who’s rarely predictable and is never uptight. He never sounds shy. You can tell Winter has a great sense of humor about what he’s doing, but also that he’s taking the job of rock and roll singer very seriously and pushing himself to his physical limits with absolute earnestness. This is the magic combination for rock music – fun and volatile and trashy and silly and flirty and thoroughly convinced of its own coolness.

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