Gallo, Ron Foreground Music LP Vinyl

FOREGROUND MUSIC, the title of Ron Gallo's 4th LP, and debut for Kill Rock Stars might also be a suitable name for his own genre. In simplest terms it's the opposite of background music - unavoidable, urgent, in your face - Gallo's consistent theme is to confront, disrupt and sometimes even confuse people into a sense of awareness. The intention to steer away from apathy and self-empower by focusing on what we can control and make light of in a world designed to take it away. The guitar is less an instrument and more of a primal noise machine. This record is a challenge to everything and everyone, including his own self, who is holding back the progress of humanity (especially in America) into a more open, empathetic and collective unit - the words delivered with a punkish tenacity and lining even the heaviest topics with an ever-present sense of humor. It covers the full spectrum of emotion. This music feels like life feels right now. In his eyes, how could it not?

1. Entitled Man 2. Foreground Music 3. At Least I'm Dancing 4. Vanity March 5. Yucca Valley Marshalls 6. San Benedetto 7. Can My Flowers Even Grow Here? 8. Big Truck Energy 9. Life Is a Privilege? (Interlude) 10. Anything But This 11. I Love Someone Buried Deep Inside of You