[Cover photo credit to Abby Mueller]

On March 3rd, 2023, Ron Gallo released Foreground Music, an album that is, in Gallo’s own words, “what an existential crisis would sound like if it could also be fun.” Some of the topics that pop up on the album include “male entitlement, the age of anxiety, apathy vs. action, gentrification, narcissism, retail therapy, xenophobia, the dread of future generations, right wing extremists in giant pickup trucks, capitalism, climate change, and the experience of having a loved-one who is an addict”.

The album tracks will take on new and expanded forms on the forthcoming Deluxe Edition, out February 9, 2024. The acoustic track “I Love Someone Buried Deep Inside You” is the first to be released of the alternative recordings.

Gallo says about the track:

After touring all year behind the new album, nothing has ever caused so many people to come up to me after a show and tell me they cried and then proceed to open up to me about their own experiences losing family, friends and loved ones to addiction than this song.

Sincerity is not always at the forefront of what I normally do because I find it to be scary, but with this song, it had to be, it came from a very real place and I really think it perfectly captures the feeling. It’s been amazing to see the reaction to it.

It’s tucked away as the last track on the album and so I thought (while sick with covid and quarantining in my studio) that I oughta record an even slower, woozier alternate version using the old Casio I originally wrote the song on and give the song a moment to reach more people in the way I’ve seen it reach people this year.

FOREGROUND MUSIC (DELUXE EDITION) Tracklist:

1. FOREGROUND MUSIC

2. CAN MY FLOWERS EVEN GROW HERE?

3. ENTITLED MAN

4. AT LEAST I’M DANCING

5. BIG TRUCK ENERGY

6. YUCCA VALLEY MARSHALLS

7. ANYTHING BUT THIS

8. SAN BENEDETTO

9. VANITY MARCH

10. LIFE IS A PRIVILEGE? (INTERLUDE)

11. I LOVE SOMEONE BURIED DEEP INSIDE OF YOU

12. Anything But This (Jerry’s version)

13. I Love Someone Buried Deep Inside of You (Ron’s version)

14. yucca valley marshalls (acoustic version)

15. condos (acoustic version)

16. big truck energy (acoustic version)

17. can my flowers even grow here? (acoustic version)

18. anything but this (acoustic version)

19. i love someone buried deep inside of you (acoustic version)

20. Foreground Music (Tape demo)