Ron Gallo Enters the VR Realm for Band Practice in New “FOREGROUND MUSIC” Video - FLOOD Magazine

In the aftermath of his past LP expanding the scope of his dependable successful the directions of left-field hip-hop and gentle psychedelia, Philly-based songwriter Ron Gallo is announcing his follow-up to past year’s PEACEMEAL today with a azygous that transfers that chaotic attack to songwriting implicit to its lyrical focus. “FOREGROUND MUSIC” arrives up of a caller medium of the aforesaid sanction planned for merchandise successful March, and its choky and talkative garage-punk vigor draws comparisons to contemporaries similar Parquet Courts. 

“Should I get a haircut oregon should I chopped my full caput off?” Gallo queries aboriginal connected successful the absurdist track, which helium explains is simply a stream-of-consciousness circuit done each the anxieties of the contiguous moment. “[It’s] an ode to each the 3 a.m.s I woke up successful a panic implicit everything from the extremity of the satellite to regretting everything I’ve ever said oregon made successful my full life,” helium shares. “Probably 1 of the much fun-sounding songs connected the record, too.”

The way arrives with a video that incorporates his show of the opus wrong a VR headset arsenic a pistillate gets mislaid successful playing a Guitar Hero–type crippled portion burglars locomotion disconnected with each of her possessions. Adds Gallo: “Maybe thing incorrect with maine oregon perpetual existential dread is simply a broadside effect of America, but erstwhile the directors, Ryan Bender and Jordan Hahn, came to maine with the thought of ‘a person’s location gets robbed portion they are successful VR world’ I thought it was [a] cleanable summary of wherever humans look to beryllium headed.”

Check retired the video below, and expect much anxieties being expressed connected FOREGROUND MUSIC upon its March 3 merchandise via Kill Rock Stars.