Why everyone is still talking about Geese

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

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With the arrival of the Geese Tiny Desk, we thought we’d try to break down what it is about this band that has made them one of the most talked about and polarizing acts of the past six months.

Host Robin Hilton is joined by NPR Music's Ann Powers and host of The Ringer's Bandsplain podcast Yasi Salek to make sense of all the fuss. (Full disclosure: We all love Geese.)

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1:28.7	music, including the one that just went up, if you haven't seen it yet, a tiny desk with the band
1:33.8	Geese. That is up and out. If you don't know geese, and I know there are some people who
1:40.0	still don't know this band, the simple answer is that they're a rock band from Brooklyn. But the longer,
1:48.2	more complicated answer is that they are the most talked about, certainly one of the most talked
1:53.0	about, most divisive polarizing bands of the past six months. I would say the most divisive and
1:59.8	polarizing rock band period of the last six months, if not longer.
2:04.3	And that's what we're going to talk about on this episode of All Songs Consider.
2:07.0	What it is about this band that has captured everyone's fascination for so long.
2:13.2	And we're not going to do this alone because, you know, something this thorny,
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