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Equal parts Space Odyssey and Ghost World, Ganser released their debut LP \u003ci\u003eOdd Talk\u003c\/i\u003e in 2018 to favorable coverage from The New York Times, Billboard, and Stereogum. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on their dissociative disorder namesake, the album’s tone vacillated between frenzied and contemplative, probing on questions of communication, intimacy, and avoidance. On \u003ci\u003eJust Look at That Sky,\u003c\/i\u003e Ganser further explores the personal inner climate of uncertain times. Opening track \u003ci\u003eLucky\u003c\/i\u003e announces an explosive energy that evokes the Midwest noise-rock legacy of bands like Jesus Lizard and Shellac, while embracing a more colorful palette of post-punk and art rock influences. 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These songs chart inner monologues of emphatic confusion, emotions already deeply felt further ratcheted up by the anxiety of always having too much information about other people, and always being just one tweet or status update away from knowing what everyone really thinks about us. This culminates in closing track \u003ci\u003eBags for Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which imagines how online discourse might tackle a front-row seat for the end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are songs that never shy away from ugliness and confusion, that believe embracing the totality of the self sometimes means leaning into our dickish behavior. 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What propels Ganser as a band, for me, is what shines here: their performance of joyful apathy so often has many other moving parts underneath that suggest that they are a band of deep caring, simply unsatisfied with the hands they’ve been dealt by the world. The dark humor seeped into the apathy is the central and most visual part of the magic trick, but it isn’t the trick itself. It is the disappearing bird or rabbit, that which returns safely to the open palm in order to distract an audience from everything else unfolding during its disappearance. “People Watching” is almost a mini-suite of a jam, which first kicks in your door and then lulls you with what feels like comfort, before tearing your place apart on the way out. 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