{"product_id":"792105762906","title":"ANIMAL HOSPITAL (FUTURE BLUE VINYL) | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eGanser, 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.  What has been gathered here is a collection of observations,  recollections of the minutes that turned to days spent  witnessing the humanity within people shift and spin in new  directions. People changed stripes and spots, or maybe they  just revealed the marks they always held. Lives became held at  a distance. Masks pulled tight. There's a profundity to be found  in exploring the the surreal truths lurking in our hearts, that the  sad and the mundane can play so effortlessly with the absurd  and beautiful to make something haunting, something striking,  songs that sting and soar and beg you to dance all at once.  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.  Time on the road with artists like IDLES, McLusky and Ted Leo,  alongside shows with Amyl \u0026amp; The Sniffers, Bikini Kill, Viagra  Boys and so many more have only sharpened the indelible  talent that lurks in all corners of Ganser's work, filtering the  absurd and the profound through a prism and emerging with  music that refuses to believe that any one thing is true, that  instead all things hold strength and secrets in their shadows,  and it's only in beckoning us all to the floor and giving us  purpose that we can understand the inescapable beauty of all  contradictory things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GANSER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241906352373,"sku":"792105762906","price":21.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/0792105762906.jpg?v=1780887279","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/792105762906","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}