A Four-Part Rave For Geese’s ‘Getting Killed,’ The Best Indie Album Of 2025

Lewis Evans/Derrick Rossignol I. “I DON’T DESERVE THIS/NOBODY DESERVES THIS” Music critics like to do this thing where they point to an album or a song and declare, “This music captures how it feels to live in America right now.” And, often, I make fun of this. And you probably do, too. It just sounds so foolish and pompous. Because it’s almost never literally true. Art that aspires to capture “how it feels to live in America right now,” 99 percent of the time, is terrible. If it happens, it’s only by accident, which paradoxically undermines the allegedly definitive nature of the enterpr