# Trinidad (song)
"Trinidad" is the title of several songs by different artists, most prominently the 2025 opening track of the album *Getting Killed* by the New York rock band Geese, an Italian summer single by Alessio Bernabei released in 2020, and a 2013 house single by the trio Apollonia. The title also names albums by Sweet Spirit (2020) and the Argentine cumbia singer Trinidad (2023), which are distinct works.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Geese, "Trinidad" | Opening track of *Getting Killed*, released September 26, 2025 on Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam; issued as a single on July 29, 2025, running 3:44[1](https://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/track/trinidad) • [2](https://open.spotify.com/album/2F5SSX6eyJQv3OJIUV1Y6x) |
| Signature line | Frontman Cameron Winter repeatedly screams "There's a bomb in my car"; one review counts thirteen repetitions, another fifteen[3](https://apnews.com/article/8b602608466a4634149f4a7db2149e25) • [4](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/geese-getting-killed) • [5](https://www.medicineboxmag.com/post/geeses-trinidad-lyrics-explained-run-the-red) |
| Credits | Written by Cameron Winter, Dominic DiGesu, Emily Green, and Max Bassin; produced by Geese and Kenneth Blume (Kenny Beats), with a guest appearance from JPEGMAFIA[6](https://readdork.com/lyrics/geese-trinidad) • [3](https://apnews.com/article/8b602608466a4634149f4a7db2149e25) |
| Origin | Grew out of a roughly 25-minute band jam from an idea Winter brought to the group, according to guitarist Emily Green[7](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/emily-green-geese-getting-killed) |
| Bernabei, "Trinidad" | Italian single announced July 17, 2020, written during the COVID-19 lockdown with Alex Vella, Emanuele Lovito, and Mario Fanizzi[8](https://www.radioitalia.it/news/alessio-bernabei-torna-in-radio-con-il-singolo-trinidad--454292) |
| Apollonia, "Trinidad" | House single released June 2013 on the label Apollonia (catalog APO008), the trio's first release as a production unit[9](https://ra.co/reviews/13215?comments=1) |
## Geese, "Trinidad" (2025)
**Release and leak.** "Trinidad" is the opening track of *Getting Killed*, Geese's album released on September 26, 2025 through Partisan Records and Play It Again Sam[1](https://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/track/trinidad). It was the album's second single, following "Taxes"[10](https://exileshmagazine.com/2025/08/geese-trinidad-single.html). Days before the official release, frontman [Cameron Winter](https://www.edgepedia.org/cameron-winter) leaked the song without his bandmates' knowledge, arguing that nobody should have to wait for music; he then posted an apology on social media, and the track was formally issued on July 29, 2025[11](https://www.dansendeberen.be/2025/07/29/nieuwe-single-geese-trinidad/). The single artwork shows a beach in [Trinidad and Tobago](https://www.edgepedia.org/trinidad-and-tobago), the first stock photograph that appears for a web search on the country[11](https://www.dansendeberen.be/2025/07/29/nieuwe-single-geese-trinidad/).
**Music and lyrics.** The song was written by Winter, bassist Dominic DiGesu, guitarist [Emily Green](https://www.edgepedia.org/emily-green-musician), and drummer Max Bassin, and produced by the band with Kenneth Blume, the producer formerly known as [Kenny Beats](https://www.edgepedia.org/kenny-beats)[6](https://readdork.com/lyrics/geese-trinidad). Green has described its origin as a long improvisation: an idea Winter brought to the band started a jam of about 25 minutes, from which the group kept what she estimates is the five percent of a jam that is usually good[7](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/emily-green-geese-getting-killed).
The lyric centers on a narrator who announces a bomb in the car and lists a ruined household, a son in bed, dead daughters, and a wife in the shed, before pulling away at a red light. The Associated Press describes Winter delivering the refrain "There's a bomb in my car!" through blood-curdling screams, over an arrangement that oscillates between croons over bluesy guitars and abrasive instrumentation, with a guest appearance from JPEGMAFIA[3](https://apnews.com/article/8b602608466a4634149f4a7db2149e25). The word Trinidad never appears in the lyrics; one commentary reads the song as a getaway narrative in which the family list is an inventory read on the way out and escape is the real subject[5](https://www.medicineboxmag.com/post/geeses-trinidad-lyrics-explained-run-the-red). Reviewers have compared its tone to [Talking Heads](https://www.edgepedia.org/talking-heads) and [David Byrne](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-byrne), with the Louder Than War review calling the refrain an absurd *Life During Wartime*-style lyric[12](https://louderthanwar.com/geese-getting-killed-album-review/).
**Reception.** The song drew wide critical attention as the album's opener. Paste counted the refrain thirteen times and praised the track's stereo panning[4](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/geese-getting-killed); The Guardian singled it out for its transition from dreamlike soul to metal-style screaming[4](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/geese-getting-killed); the Associated Press found it interesting but out of place on the band's most accessible record[3](https://apnews.com/article/8b602608466a4634149f4a7db2149e25). *Time* named *Getting Killed* the best album of 2025, describing the opener's screamed line as a litmus test that feels like dizzied nonsense and like a civilization driving itself off a cliff[13](https://time.com/7333797/best-albums-2025/). On Album of the Year, the single holds a user score of 86 from 521 ratings[14](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1409610-geese-trinidad.php).
**Live.** "Trinidad" has become a fixture of the band's set, typically performed last with the stage lights off while Green plays a chaotic tremolo-picked pattern on a Reverend Double Agent guitar tuned down to D[7](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/emily-green-geese-getting-killed). Geese performed it during their [Saturday Night Live](https://www.edgepedia.org/saturday-night-live) debut on January 24, 2026, alongside "[Au Pays du Cocaine](https://www.edgepedia.org/au-pays-du-cocaine)"[15](https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-geese-make-their-snl-debut-with-performances-of-au-pays-du-cocaine-and-trinidad-3925319), and closed with it at the Fox Theater in Oakland during the Getting Killed Again Tour[16](https://riffmagazine.com/reviews/geese-20261019/).
## Alessio Bernabei, "Trinidad" (2020)
[The Italian](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-italian) singer Alessio Bernabei released "Trinidad" as a radio single announced on July 17, 2020, describing it as a summer song with a melancholic flavor. He wrote it with Alex Vella, Emanuele Lovito, and Mario Fanizzi during the COVID-19 lockdown, saying the group liked to imagine moments of ordinary life while everything felt surreal. He explained the title as both a woman's name and an earthly paradise: although the island of Trinidad lies in the Caribbean, unusual currents spare it from hurricanes, so it can be enjoyed at any time of year, a comparison he drew to love having no season. The single arrived two years after his album *Senza filtri*[8](https://www.radioitalia.it/news/alessio-bernabei-torna-in-radio-con-il-singolo-trinidad--454292).
## Apollonia, "Trinidad" (2013)
"Trinidad" is the A-side of the single APO008 by Apollonia, the house music collaboration of Dyed Soundorom, Dan Ghenacia, and Shonky, released in June 2013. [Resident Advisor](https://www.edgepedia.org/resident-advisor)'s review called it the stronger of the two tracks, built on a catchy bassline with Shonky's synth touches and spoken-word samples, and described it as a slow-burner rather than a gatecrasher, with "Visa Americain" as its B-side[9](https://ra.co/reviews/13215?comments=1).
## Other works titled Trinidad
The Austin band Sweet Spirit released an album called *Trinidad* on May 29, 2020, its third LP and debut for Merge Records, named after lead singer Sabrina Ellis's great-grandmother; it is an album rather than a single song[17](https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/sweet-spirit-trinidad). The name also belongs to recording artists, including an Argentine cumbia singer whose 2023 album *Trinidad* and 2025 single "sobrenatural" appear under the name[18](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/trinidad/15654446).
## References
1. [Trinidad | Geese, Bandcamp](https://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/track/trinidad)
2. [Trinidad - Single by Geese, Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2F5SSX6eyJQv3OJIUV1Y6x)
3. [Music Review: Geese's 'Getting Killed', Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/8b602608466a4634149f4a7db2149e25)
4. [Getting Killed - Geese, Review Score, Chorus.Reviews](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/geese-getting-killed)
5. [Geese's "Trinidad" Lyrics Explained: Run the Red, Medicine Box](https://www.medicineboxmag.com/post/geeses-trinidad-lyrics-explained-run-the-red)
6. [Trinidad Lyrics — Geese, Readdork](https://readdork.com/lyrics/geese-trinidad)
7. [Geese's Emily Green interview, Guitar World](https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/emily-green-geese-getting-killed)
8. [Alessio Bernabei torna in radio con il singolo "Trinidad", Radio Italia](https://www.radioitalia.it/news/alessio-bernabei-torna-in-radio-con-il-singolo-trinidad--454292)
9. [Apollonia - Trinidad, Single Review, Resident Advisor](https://ra.co/reviews/13215?comments=1)
10. [Trinidad es el segundo adelanto de los neoyorkinos Geese, Exile SH Magazine](https://exileshmagazine.com/2025/08/geese-trinidad-single.html)
11. [Nieuwe single Geese - "Trinidad", Dansende Beren](https://www.dansendeberen.be/2025/07/29/nieuwe-single-geese-trinidad/)
12. [Geese: Getting Killed - Album Review, Louder Than War](https://louderthanwar.com/geese-getting-killed-album-review/)
13. [The 10 Best Albums of 2025, Time](https://time.com/7333797/best-albums-2025/)
14. [Geese - Trinidad (Single), Album of The Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1409610-geese-trinidad.php)
15. [Watch Geese make their 'SNL' debut, NME](https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-geese-make-their-snl-debut-with-performances-of-au-pays-du-cocaine-and-trinidad-3925319)
16. [REVIEW: Geese push chaos to the brink in Oakland, RIFF Magazine](https://riffmagazine.com/reviews/geese-20261019/)
17. [Sweet Spirit: "Trinidad", The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/sweet-spirit-trinidad)
18. [Trinidad, Apple Music artist page](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/trinidad/15654446)
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