The Bad Seeds’ Nick Cave has shared his praise for Cameron Winter, the songwriter and vocalist of Geese.
In a recent post to his Red Hand Files, Cave shared with his readers what he had been listening to recently. The legendary frontman confirmed he had been listening to Heavy Metal, the debut solo album of Geese frontman Winter. Heavy Metal released late last year and seems to have impressed Cave, who quoted one of his favourite lyrics from the “brilliant” album in a recent post. He also shared what he had been up to on Sunday, confirming his walk was soundtracked by Winter.
He wrote: “On Sunday morning, I wandered through the little town of Lititz in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where I had been rehearsing with The Bad Seeds. The streets were wet and empty, and the sun had finally come out, making it feel like the world was emerging from a less complicated time.
“I found a place to eat called the Tomato Pie Café, ordered eggs and coffee, and gazed out the window at the cherry blossoms blazing in the sunlight.
“Then I walked up and down the main street again, this ordinary Sunday morning becoming beautiful as I listened to Cameron Winter’s startling, wigged-out album, Heavy Metal. A glorious, emotive voice with brilliant, blistering words, a racked and wondrous thing – Today, I ment who I’m gonna be from now on / And he’s a piece of shit.”
Cave went on to describe the lyric as “amazing”. An early entry into the Red Hand Files saw Cave share his at-the-time ten favourite songs. A list of those ten songs can be found below.
- Avalance – Leonard Cohen
- Katie Cruel – Karen Dalton
- On the Beach – Neil Young
- Tupelo – John Lee Hooker
- T.B. Sheets – Van Morrison
- It’s All Ovber Now, Baby Blue – Bob Dylan
- Plain Gold Ring – Nina Simone
- Holocaust – Big Star
- Becalmed – Brian Eno
- One Fine Morning – Bill Callahan
Winter cracked the top one-hundred albums round-up of 2024, with his Heavy Metal debut dubbed a piece of “career-cementing brilliance” by Cult Following. The spot on the list for Winter reads: “Those bits and pieces which did not quite gel with one band or another project make themselves known on Heavy Metal, an album which could not be further from the genre suggested by its title.
“Acoustic tenderness is the name of the game here, and for Winter, burrowing into hotel cupboards or quiet spots in his life on the road, finds something beautiful within. His folksy, instrumental collapse on We’re Thinking the Same Thing or the brutality which comes in the hang-ups heard on his stripped-back acoustic tone for Cancer of the Skull is the sort of career-cementing brilliance so many are still searching for.”
