Emily Green (musician)

Geese (2016-present)

Green met the members of Geese in early childhood. She made friends with frontman Cameron Winter and drummer Max Bassin while at Brooklyn Friends School. Upon starting high school, she transferred to the Little Red School House where she would meet bassist Dominic DiGesu. She would form Geese with Winter, DiGesu, and Bassin in 2016 after regularly collaborating with them in the Park Slope Rock School music program.^[2] Another Little Red School House student that Green had studied with, Foster Hudson, would later join the band as second guitarist.^[7] The band's name is derived from Green's childhood nickname, "Goose".^[8]

Geese began to practice weekly at Bassin's basement after school, with equipment handed to them by their parents. After releasing a couple of EPs and their debut album A Beautiful Memory in 2018, the band intended to break up to attend college. However, in 2020, Geese was scouted by manager Willie Upbin, who gave them record offers from labels such as 4AD and Sub Pop. They eventually signed to Partisan Records.^[2] Geese would get critical acclaim with their albums Projector, 3D Country, and Getting Killed.

Star's Revenge (2023-present)

Green met Olive Faber at South by Southwest in 2022, where both Geese and Faber's band Sunflower Bean were performing, and quickly became friends.^[5] Their friendship would grow into a musical project after both Green and Faber left a party and talked about starting a band. The two came together to form Star's Revenge after weekly recording sessions elaborating on previous material and forgoing boundaries set by their respective bands. Star's Revenge released a self-titled album in 2024.^[9] Green described this album as produced half by herself, half by Faber.^[10]

Musical style

Geese's music has been described as art rock,^[11] indie rock,^[12] and post-punk.^[13] Green's guitar playing is portrayed as switching between "uncontrollable shredding and steady command" with much experimentation with her instrument.^[10] Rolling Stone's Jaeden Pinder has also summarized her guitar playing as meticulous and layered with a "minimalist flair".^[14]

Green has played a variety of guitar equipment, using guitars, pedals, and amps from several brands and models. However, a mainstay has been the Reverend Double Agent: she says she found the guitar for sale and appreciated its sound and that it "cost about $500 less than a Fender would".^[15] During live shows, Green also uses a Boss DD-5 digital delay pedal, which she likes for its reliable performance, long delay times, and the "glitchy" time dilation effect. Other gear that Green uses is the Stratotone Newport Model H 42/2 guitar by Silvertone, as well as a Pearl Parametric EQ pedal, a Boss Blues Driver, and a Z.Vex Fuzz Factory. She regards gaining experience performing live with others as the best and most interesting method of playing guitar as opposed to music theory or dedicated practice sessions, citing her experiences playing with Winter and Bassin.^[16]

Influences

Green attributes the album Marquee Moon by New York band Television as a huge influence, singling out the guitar work of frontman Tom Verlaine.^[16] British band Radiohead were also reportedly influential to Green's guitar playing early on with their use of various guitar pedals.^[17] Pinder has additionally credited Verlaine and Radiohead as the main factors in her "lithe and spry" and "woozy" playing.^[14] She also called Snowflakes Are Dancing by Japanese musician Isao Tomita one of her favorite albums, because "the album functions as a place that I believe I'll always wanna return to".^[18]