Shaad D'Souza
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66 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
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So, yeah, it's been it's been a kind of crazy couple of weeks in the usually quite sedate world of indie rock.
But Geese basically are a band from New York, a bunch of friends who grew up together, went to high school together and who make this quite like jammy, kind of bluesy rock band.
But, you know, it's super hooky.
They released a couple of albums a few years back, and then last year they released their third album, Getting Killed, and it was just this huge sensation.
It seemed like suddenly overnight everyone was talking about Geese.
A few months before that, their frontman Cameron Winter had released an almost Rufus Wainwright-esque album of kind of piano folk songs.
And then, you know, over the course of 2025, both Geese and Cam Winter both kind of like blew up.
At South by Southwest in Austin, which is a big kind of music and tech kind of industry festival, Billboard, which is kind of like the main music trade magazine, did a live podcast with the two founders of an agency called Chaotic Good Projects.
The two guys kind of talked about how
One of the services they offer is essentially the creation of fake fan accounts or kind of like fake social sentiment to kind of like boost a certain artist.
And they were kind of bragging.
They were talking quite openly about this idea that they were able to manufacture virality for anyone.
And so a couple of people on Reddit and also a sub stack named Eliza McGlam, who's a musician, saw that podcast and dug around a bit and saw that Geese and Cameron Winter, as well as a bunch of, I would say, the biggest breakout artists of 2025, you know, including OK Lou, who's like a French kind of underground electronic singer.
McGee, who obviously had a big hand in Justin Bieber's last album, and Dijon, who also had a big record last year and also works with Bieber.
A bunch of kind of the biggest success stories of last year were all clients of Chaotic Good.
So after that was kind of revealed, All Hell kind of broke loose.
I think there's an understanding, you know, going back to like the nineties of this kind of pseudo code of ethics, I guess, you know, this idea that in indie music, you know, there's not much money, but we're a community and we all kind of band together and do things the honest way, quote unquote.
And then also that in recent years, indie music has been maybe a refuge from a kind of corporatized world and a tech influenced world that has become harder and harder to trust.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that barrier between the commercial and the quote unquote underground has always been more porous than it might initially seem.
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