Ganser’s New Single “Buio” Calls For Sometimes Rocking Your Own Boat With Dramatic, Futile Gestures to Disrupt Patterns of Complacency and Stagnation

Ganser1_crop — Ganser, photo courtesy the artists

The video for “Buio,” the lead single from Chicago post-punk band Ganser’s new EP You Must Be New Here (due out November 8) depicts a situation many of us are familiar with and that being at a social occasion where we’re disengaged and not sure why we’re there. So the protagonist, played by Caitlin Eward, envisons putting her hands in the middle of the cake and wrecking the décor and violating decorum. It represents being at that point in your life where going through the motions of a life that seems stale and stagnant that you’re not even sure what it is about that place in your life, however much one sought it out, that makes sense. The chorus of “I won’t pretend I know anymore, I don’t even know what I like anymore” speaks directly to that moment when you’re ready to do something ridiculous to shake up your status quo whether something like putting both hands deep in a cake, one that you baked to celebrate the accomplishments that mean little to you anymore or some other dramatic gesture to inject some chaos into stultifying comfort. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Ganser at the links below.