Heavy Metal

by Cameron Winter

Heavy Metal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 December 2024
  • Label: Partisan, Play It Again Sam
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:46
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 34 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On his debut solo album 'Heavy Metal', Geese frontman Cameron Winter presents a surreal and eclectic mosaic of modern songwriting that diverges from his band's established sound. The album is built on a foundation of contemporary folk and singer-songwriter traditions, characterized by Winter's versatile, crooning vocal delivery and carefully written, stream-of-consciousness lyrics that explore themes of existential dread, love, and spirituality. Co-produced with Loren Humphrey, the arrangements are often loose and improvisational, layering piano, gentle percussion, and woodwinds to create a sound that is both intricate and raw, establishing Winter as a formidable and inventive solo artist.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic, storytelling, confessional, piano

Tracklist

  1. The Rolling Stones (03:18)
  2. Nausica盲 (Love Will Be Revealed) (04:11)
  3. Love Takes Miles (03:18)
  4. Drinking Age (03:30)
  5. Cancer of the Skull (05:31)
  6. Try as I May (04:47)
  7. We're Thinking the Same Thing (02:47)
  8. Nina + Field of Cops (05:52)
  9. $0 (06:43)
  10. Can't Keep Anything (03:49)

Credits

  • Cameron Winter - vocals, guitar, keyboards, written-by, producer, engineer, mixed by
  • Loren Humphrey - drums, producer, engineer, mixed by
  • James Richardson - classical guitar
  • Lucas Carpenter - assistant engineer
  • Ismael Pieter - design
  • Tim Widden - drawing [forensic sketch]
  • Adam Powell - photography by [cover]

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