Pandemonium: The only word that can describe the militant battle between the culturally crossed sounds and aesthetic ambience Ginger Leigh's latest album, And the Hallucinations constructs. From the influences of American music to the sitars and string arrangements of the Middle Eastern countries; confusion, ideology, and entropy mark Ginger’s belief about the eternal antipodal difference between the Eastern and Western cultures.

The greatness of the album comes from Ginger’s ability to tell a story about the journey of a person finding the true meaning of war through obscene fracas instead of using words. It is a dream; a hallucination. The opening number, "al-Ironman," is an attempted warning that suggests that the cultural conflict is so large, only a superhero like Ironman can resolve it. "Heaven's Eye" is beautifully disturbing in which it escapades from loud sirens to the sounds of a hopeful ending to the war. The Psychedelic songs like “Get It Right!” and “A Song For Two Marionettes,” are salutes to the many who protest wars. Much like during the 60s when the Vietnam War was remonstrated by hippies, the two songs provide nothing but realism to the story: We are human, thus our world is not perfect, but let’s make it goddamn it! Another hallucination is told in “The Cripple and the Mime.” The dream is taken to a carnival when suddenly, a loud bang erupts the festivities only to elude a terrorist attack has taken place.

Whether one views this album as disastrously annoying or a phenomenal masterpiece, Ginger’s understanding of how to artistically illustrate an anarchic cultural clash through noise is flawless. Even though little is known about Ginger Leigh and why he creates songs of calamity depicted through various electronic sounds, after listening to And the Hallucinations, it is clear that his primary objective was not to write an album of popularity, but to solemnly diagnose a demented album that confronts a jumbled political thought.