Ganser - Animal Hospital

The right songs, strung together, give a revitalized vision of our surroundings, as if fresh eyes can be granted by rhythm alone, find new shapes for the weathered wireframe of the world and see the shadows as they dance with the light of day.

Animal Hospital, the new LP from Chicago art punks Ganser, is a monument to observation, a tome of stray thoughts gathered while moving through a crowd coalesced into a collective take on the absurd contradictions of lives moving past.
Animal Hospital is Ganser at their most dynamic, stretching the confines of their sonic boundaries into new territory, testing the elastic limits of sound. The core of the band, Alicia Gaines, Sophie Sputnik, and Brian Cundiff, remain steadfastly committed to propulsive patterns; drums that pound exacting beats on the heart, pulse quickened by bass and guitars, synths to calm the nerves. Building endless rhythm beneath feet moving in time on a dance floor, or a sidewalk masquerading as one.

Recorded at Jamdek Studios by Doug Malone (with additional recording by Nick Broste at Electrical Audio) and produced in partnership with longtime collaborator Angus Andrews (Liars) between January and March of 2025, Animal Hospital is a masterwork of Ganser’s long-honed craft. Songs that began life as notes scratched as far back as 2020 (save for “stripe”, a demo reworked from 2001) that have been honed and committed here to tape, pressed into wax. Ganser has built their sound out, constructed walls that tower to new heights, joined on the record by Charlie Landsman and Dove Hollis to shore up the foundation.