***CAMERON WINTER - Adam Powell/Courtesy of Partisan Records***

At just 22 years old, Cameron Winter has already lived several musical lives. Known first as the frontman and creative core of Geese, one of Brooklyn’s most exciting new rock bands, Winter stepped out on his own in 2024 with Heavy Metal: a stunning solo debut that defied expectations, blending 60s folk sensitivity with modern songwriting introspection.

The story began in 2016, when Winter and his friends, Dominic DiGesu, Max Bassin, and Emily Green, formed Geese while still students at the Brooklyn Friends School. What started in a basement in Fort Greene evolved into one of New York’s most promising young rock acts. Their self-recorded demos caught the attention of several major indie labels, eventually leading them to sign with Partisan Records.

Their debut, Projector (2021), earned immediate critical acclaim for its sharp, restless sound, drawing comparisons to both post-punk revivalists and art-rock innovators. With 3D Country (2023) and its companion EP 4D Country, the band pushed their boundaries further, embracing a more theatrical, Americana-inspired approach.

In 2024, Cameron Winter took a quieter but no less ambitious path. His first solo album, Heavy Metal, turned heads precisely because it wasn’t what anyone expected. Inspired by legends such as Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, the album traded Geese’s electric chaos for subtle folk arrangements and poetic storytelling. Winter’s calm, steady voice carried the record through themes of identity, loneliness, and self-discovery, a bold and graceful reinvention.

Acoustic guitars and soft pianos replace distortion, lyrical vulnerability takes precedence over urgency, and Winter’s voice, calm, weary, but assured, sits at the center of it all. It’s not an album that shouts; it lingers, it unfolds, as the stories of a young man battling depression are being told. And that’s precisely what makes it so compelling.

Following the success of Heavy Metal, Geese returned in 2025 with a new project titled Getting Killed: an album that seems to channel both the raw energy of their beginnings and the newfound maturity of their frontman. Riding on Winter’s growing visibility as a solo artist, the band uses this project to reassert its creative identity, balancing collective energy with individual vision.

Through both Geese and his solo work, Cameron Winter embodies the spirit of his generation, self-produced, self-questioning, endlessly curious. He’s an artist unafraid to blur boundaries, whether between genres or identities, and in doing so, he’s quietly redefining what it means to make rock music in the 2020s.