People who know me are aware that alternative music often plays second fiddle to dance. So, when a song in that realm piques my interest, it’s a big deal.

“Cobra” by Brooklyn band Geese is a horse and cart tackling rough dirt roads—jangly, gritty and determined. I imagine a pioneer with reins in hand, trundling across frontier America, steely-willed for whatever life will throw at him next.

Defined by merry guitar strings and Cameron Winter’s timeless, strung-out vocal, “Cobra” rolls along with lyrics rich with imagery. At times, Winter is enamoured by his partner, “Baby, let me wash your feet forever, Baby, you can stay at my house forever and ever”, and at others, he’s at odds with her, straining against her romantic pull like a snake resisting its charmer.