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Animal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHospital, the new LP from Chicago art punks Ganser, is a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emonument to observation, a tome of stray thoughts gathered \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhile moving through a crowd coalesced into a collective take \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon the absurd contradictions of lives moving past. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnimal Hospital is Ganser at their most dynamic, stretching the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econfines of their sonic boundaries into new territory, testing the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelastic limits of sound. 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