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\n\t \n\t\u201cHe pulled up 7,000 claps,\u201d frontman Cameron Winter recalls. \u201cWe spent all day choosing a clap.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tEven months later, Winter, drummer Max Bassin, guitarist Emily Green, and bassist Dominic DiGesu are still incredulous as they recall the intensity with which they conducted this search. And its ultimate futility.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThat was one of the days we went home sad,\u201d Green says.<\/p>\n \n\tWhy? \u201cWe spent too long looking at claps!\u201d she answers.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe forgot to make the song,\u201d says Winter.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou think you\u2019re gonna make a song, and then the day ends and it\u2019s like, \u2018Let\u2019s hear what we got,\u2019\u201d Bassin says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a clap.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe restaurant, in the upscale, home-y neighborhood of Park Slope, isn\u2019t far from where several members of Geese grew up and first started playing music together at an after-school rock<\/a> program. Now all in their early twenties, they formed the band in 2016, when everyone was still in high school; college was deferred after their early demos sparked a bidding war among several top-tier indie labels. Geese were quickly pegged as NYC wunderkinds, and have since earned a reputation as one of the most original young bands out there.<\/p>\n \n\tTheir proper debut, 2021\u2019s Projector<\/a><\/em>, was a buzzy collection of post-punk pastiche; 2023\u2019s 3D Country<\/a><\/em> was an assured swerve into inventive yet familiar rock & roll. Support runs for King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard, Greta Van Fleet, and Vampire Weekend bolstered an already avid fanbase. As did the surprise success of Winter\u2019s phenomenal solo debut, the more subdued Heavy Metal<\/a><\/em>, released late last year.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t<\/span>he members of Geese<\/a> are sitting around a hibachi grill at a Brooklyn restaurant, talking about the time they lost an entire day in the studio listening to handclaps. While making their new album, Getting Killed<\/em>, they wanted to incorporate the sound onto a track. So their producer, Kenneth Blume (better known as Kenny Beats), promptly opened a folder of sample files.\u00a0<\/p>\n