The Australian rocker praised the cult New York band on his website The Red Hand Files, where he was asked by a reader what song “comes to mind when you are genuinely joyful”. (NME report)
In response, Cave wrote that he had gotten up at 5am that morning after feeling restless from all the “what-ifs, and yeah-buts, and what-abouts swirling around in my mind”. After swimming in the icy-cold lake in a nearby park, Cave wrote about the album he listened to after getting dressed, buying a coffee and walking back.
“I put my earphones in and played Geese’s new album, ‘Getting Killed’,” Cave wrote. “The first song starts with Cameron Winter singing, in his lovely, plaintive way – “I try/ I try/ I try so hard” – and I feel those simple words down to my soul, because we all try, because we all try so hard.
When the band kicks into the chorus – I mean, my God, those drums – and Cameron Winter screams, again and again – “There’s a bomb in my car! There’s a bomb in my car!” – all worry is laid to waste,” Cave continued. “The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water, the music pounding through my body, the caffeine, the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky – no what-ifs, no yeah-buts, no what-abouts, no caveats, at all.
“I am made happy, and that happiness is entire and incontestable. And all the way home, I go—to my beautiful waking wife – on this, the best day ever.”
