The details.

Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Heavy Metal is the debut solo album from Cameron Winter, the frontman of New York band Geese, released by Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam in December 2024. Despite the title, it’s a surreal, piano-led indie singer-songwriter record, closer to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Harry Nilsson than anything with a double kick drum.

Winter co-produced it with Loren Humphrey, recording through 2023 at Humphrey’s Magic Mountain studio in Tuxedo, New York, and at Diamond Mine in Long Island City. Winter has happily muddied the story, claiming in interviews that parts were cut in taxis and Guitar Center stores with musicians found on Craigslist. Humphrey also plays drums, and the songs range from intimate piano pieces to the sax-and-clarinet sprawl of ‘Cancer of the Skull’.

Released with little fanfare, Heavy Metal grew steadily by word of mouth through 2025, with ‘Love Takes Miles’ spreading online. Pitchfork later named it the third best album of 2025 and ‘Love Takes Miles’ the year’s best song. This edition is pressed on 140g metallic silver vinyl with a printed lyric insert.

If Heavy Metal is your thing, hear these songs come alive on Live at Carnegie Hall, or go back to his day job with Geese’s Getting Killed.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. The Rolling Stones
  2. Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)
  3. Love Takes Miles
  4. Drinking Age
  5. Cancer of the Skull

Side B

  1. Try as I May
  2. We’re Thinking the Same Thing
  3. Nina + Field of Cops
  4. $0
  5. Can’t Keep Anything
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Silver

Label
Partisan Records
Barcode

5400863170660

Catalogue number
PTPS50LPX
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
6 December 2024
Care and packaging.

All records are handled minimally and shipped factory sealed to preserve condition. Orders are packed in purpose-built LP mailers and dispatched within one to two business days.

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