Ganser performing during the Love Is The Fing Tour at the Moody Amphitheater Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas on May 21, 2024. (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)
When Ganser's Just Look At That Sky graced the world in July 2020, I found myself often gazing upward, though my view was clouded by constant anxiety. My city was falling apart, and perhaps yours was too. Maybe your downtown was filled with armed men in fatigues, with tanks by the libraries and army patrols at the food banks. Yet, perhaps you found solace in an album or some songs that mirrored the times, an album that means both everything and nothing now, as time fractures into small, elastic shapes, some jagged, some joyful. Such an album requires malleability, with songs that encompass multiple layers.
Ganser returns with new music to carry us from spring to fall, in a project called Nothing You Do Matters (produced by Liars' Angus Andrew). The songs are rich, biting, sweet, and consistently tongue-in-cheek. What draws me to Ganser as a band shines through in these tracks: their performance of joyful apathy, layered with an underlying depth of care, revealing their dissatisfaction with the world's injustices. The dark humor in their apathy is the most apparent part of their allure, yet it’s not the entire trick. It's like the disappearing bird or rabbit in a magic act, returning to the open palm to distract the audience from everything else happening behind the scenes.
Ganser shared the stage with IDLES at the Moody Amphitheater Waterloo Park. They continue across the United States with the last stop at the Caterwaul 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2024.
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