Rockers Geese (comprised of frontman and guitarist Cameron Winter, guitarist Emily Green, bassist Dominic DiGesu, and drummer Max Bassin) were absolutely unavoidable in 2025. Starting the year off with an appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL), this appears to be a guarantee for 2026 as well.
The band’s latest studio album, Getting Killed, has been deemed one of the genre’s most refreshing projects released that year. So, their debut performance on SNL had big shoes to fill.
Introduced by Golden Globe Award winner, One Battle After Another‘s Teyana Taylor, Geese kicked off their SNL set with the heartbreaking tune “Au Pays du Cocaine.” Just like Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed action-thriller, Geese are in the thick of a tumultuous war—but their fight is squarely over love.
“You can stay with me, baby / You can stay with me and nobody would care / You can stay with me / You can stay with me and just pretend I’m not there / Like a sailor in a big green boat / Like a sailor in a big green coat / You can be free / You can be free and still come home / It’s alright / I’m alright,” sings Winter.
With each soft vocal strain, Winter’s desperation for connection chips away at you. But every yin has a yang. For the band’s closing number, Geese kicked things into overdrive with Getting Killed‘s dazzingly disorienting opener “Trinidad.”
“When I went deaf / I used my eyes / They stood me in line / ‘Til I went blind / Get in asshole, let’s drive / There’s a bomb in my car,” belts Winter.
If he’s going down in his pursuit of a perfect life, everyone’s going down with him.
Watch Geese’s performances of “Au Pays du Cocaine” and “Trinidad” on Saturday Night Live below.
Geese’s album Getting Killed is out now via Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam. Click here to stream or order.