Ron Gallo announce the new album Music in the foregroundwhich will be released on March 3, 2023 on the imprint Kill rock stars. A job that screams developers turning neighborhoods into anonymous AirBnB listings; to corporate bosses deciding how much music costs and to extremists bent on bringing about an apocalypse of racial and civil destruction.
He stands up to the villains in our society and aids the crushes, finding a way to laugh at the absurdity of the whole situation. In these 11 songs, Gallo displays what Ann Powers once called “literary electricity.” Go from fuzz to lounge jazz, freaky pop to post-punk to really fun rock, targeting anything that moves. Cue man’s privilege, age of anxiety, apathy for action, gentrification, narcissism, retail therapy, xenophobia, fear of future generations, right-wing extremists, capitalism, climate change and the experience of having a loved one become addicted.
Despite the chaos Ron Gallo imbues the album with a carefree charm, born of a sincere love for people and the protection of the things we hold sacred.
The theme that anticipates it is the one that gives it the title, “Music in the foreground” of which he says: “the great variety of anxieties that fuel life today. An ode to all 3 in the morning. I’ve woken up in a panic about everything from the end of the world to regretting everything I’ve said or done in my entire life. Maybe there’s something particularly wrong with me or it’s a problem specific to America, but how can you be alive in the moment and not be anxious? This song might be the closest thing to what it feels like to be in my head: laughing during the crisis, which is why I think it’s a good name for the kind of music I make.”
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