Heavy Metal (album)

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Heavy Metal
Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal.webp
Studio album by
Cameron Winter
ReleasedDecember 6, 2024 (2024-12-06)
StudioStockholm Syndrome Sound
Genre
Length43:50
Label
Producer
  • Cameron Winter
  • Loren Humphrey
Cameron Winter chronology
Singles
(2024)		Heavy Metal
(2024)
Singles from Heavy Metal
  1. "$0"
    Released: November 19, 2024

Heavy Metal is the debut solo album by Geese frontman Cameron Winter. It was released through Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam on December 6, 2024, and was met with critical acclaim.

Contents

Recording and production

The album was co-produced by Winter and Loren Humphrey. It was recorded throughout 2023 in Humphrey’s studio in Tuxedo, New York. [1] [2] [3]

Winter has claimed he worked on the album with musicians he found on Craigslist, as well as a 5-year-old boy bassist, and recorded parts of it at Guitar Center locations in New York City. [4] [5] James Richardson, a guitarist for Real Estate and a long-time member of MGMT's live band, played guitar, trumpet, and French horn on various tracks. [6]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [7]
Paste 8.9/10 [8]
Pitchfork 8.3/10 [9]
The Needle Drop 8/10 [10]

Heavy Metal was released through Partisan Records on December 6, 2024. [11] It received positive reviews from Pitchfork , [9] Paste , [8] [12] The Line of Best Fit, [7] The Needle Drop , [10] GQ, [4] and UpRoxx. [13] It has been further praised by other musicians, such as Waxahatchee, who praised what she called a "casualness and stupidity to its complete and total airtight perfection", and Nick Cave, who paid special compliments to lyrics from "Drinking Age" and called Heavy Metal both "startling" and "wigged-out". [14] [15] [16]

Musically the album has been described by Walden Green of Pitchfork as an album with "timeless arrangements that are by turns folksy, soulful, and neo-classical." [9]

It was named one of the best debut albums of 2024 by Paste [17] and an early entry for one of the best albums of 2025 by several publications, given its late 2024 release. [18] [19] [20] [21] Additionally, Pitchfork ranked "Love Takes Miles" as the best song of 2025. [22]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cameron Winter.

Heavy Metal track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Rolling Stones"3:18
2."Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)"4:11
3."Love Takes Miles"3:18
4."Drinking Age"3:30
5."Cancer of the Skull"5:31
6."Try as I May"4:47
7."We're Thinking the Same Thing"2:47
8."Nina + Field of Cops"5:52
9."$0"6:43
10."Can't Keep Anything"3:49
Total length:43:50

References

  1. ↑ Benjumea, Carolina (December 6, 2024). "Cameron Winter is Unapologetically Himself in His Solo Debut". House of Solo Magazine. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
  2. ↑ Walker, Sophie Leigh (December 10, 2024). "Cameron Winter is not kidding this time". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  3. ↑ Blistein, Jon (August 26, 2025). "How Geese Pushed Themselves to New Heights". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 27, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Black, Chris (February 6, 2025). "A 22-Year-Old Who Lives With His Parents Recorded a Solo Album at Guitar Center. We Can't Stop Listening" . GQ . Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  5. ↑ Goodman, Lizzy (April 5, 2025). "On the Verge of Rock Stardom". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 19, 2025.
  6. ↑ Strauss, Matthew (September 11, 2025). "Real Estate Introduce New Guitarist James Richardson". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 27, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Walker, Sophie Leigh (December 6, 2024). "Review of Heavy Metal by Cameron Winter: Geese frontman soars on debut solo record". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  8. 1 2 Dempsey, Alli (December 19, 2024). "Cameron Winter Reckons with the Existentially Absurd on Heavy Metal". Paste . Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 Green, Walden (January 11, 2025). "Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal". The Needle Drop. January 30, 2025. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Cameron Winter ← Artists ← Partisan Records". partisanrecords.com. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  12. ↑ "The 40 Best Debut Albums of 2024". Paste Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  13. ↑ Hyden, Steven (February 14, 2025). "It's A Cameron Winter Winter". UPROXX. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  14. ↑ Crutchfield, Katie (January 28, 2025). "you're making me feel like a dollar in your hand". Katie Crutchfield’s Substack. Retrieved June 29, 2025.
  15. ↑ Davenport, Tom (April 14, 2025). "A lovely Sunday morning today. I don't know why. What did you do?". The Red Hand Files. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
  16. ↑ Jones, Damian (April 15, 2025). "Nick Cave reveals the "glorious" album he's currently enjoying at the moment". NME. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
  17. ↑ "The 40 Best Debut Albums of 2024". Paste Magazine. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  18. ↑ D’Souza, Shaad (May 14, 2025). "Cameron Winter Summer". i-D . Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  19. ↑ Bloom, Madison; Corcoran, Nina; Gaca, Anna; Green, Walden; Larson, Jeremy D.; Lorusso, Marissa; Sherburne, Philip (April 2, 2025). "The Best Music of 2025 So Far". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 24, 2025.
  20. ↑ "The best albums of 2025 so far". The FADER. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
  21. ↑ "The Best Albums of 2025 So Far". Rolling Stone. June 5, 2025. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  22. ↑ "The 100 Best Songs of 2025". Pitchfork. December 1, 2025.
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