Boombox Blitz: Ganser are done in with ‘Avoidance’

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Ganser aren’t for the faint of heart. In a futuristic, post-punk-rock world, the Chicago band break open the skin. Nadia Garofalo’s razor sharp fangs are piercing on a new song called “Avoidance,” as she slithers over Charlie Landsman’s scorched, cracked guitar licks. The second single to the group’s forthcoming debut LP, Odd Talk, flitters and scrapes along the desert floor ⎯⎯ in the accompanying visual, the exasperation over a failed relationship is scrawled not only down the long stretch of lonesome, barren highway but across their weathered expressions. “A moment: was there something you wanted? / Give way to hours with nothing to say,” Garofalo slings in the dust. “No answers, just speculation / It passes time / Wastes my time.”

From Brian Cundiff’s visceral drum quakes to Alicia Gaines’ fragile but soaring bass lines, “Avoidance” punctures the brain and pollutes the membrane, then leaking into the blood stream right to the heart. The video applies vintage filters, clothes and automobiles to the max, tightening the song’s unpolished edge. “Your spit and skin has done me in,” Garofalo chants, rumbling through the chorus. The classic ’70s-style cars swirl in the dust and climax into a smoke-hewed drag race through the arid atmosphere, an extension of the frustrations erupting from a fading flame. “Do you hear it? / Though still, the faint hum electric, it murmurs of meaning,” she later dispatches. It’s cerebral, sticky and eerily universal.

Odd Talk drops April 20 via No Trend Records.

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Photo Credit: Samantha Lare

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