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| Released | March 3, 2023 | |||
| Recorded | 2022 | |||
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| Length | 34:43 | |||
| Label | Kill Rock Stars | |||
| Producer | Ron Gallo | |||
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Foreground Music (stylized all uppercase) is the fifth solo studio album by Ron Gallo, released on March 3, 2023, through Kill Rock Stars.
Ron Gallo described the album as "what would an existential crisis be like if it was fun". [1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Mojo |   [1] |
| Uncut | 7⁄10 [2] |
In a positive review for Mojo, James McNair called Foreground Music a "garagey art-rock and fractured funk" album and further said that "the New Jersey-born Gallo brings fizzing zeal and a bounteous grab-bag of ideas, his songs’ hooks as striking as his idiosyncratic lyrics". [1] McNair gave Foreground Music a four star rating. [1] Peter Watts, writing for Uncut magazine gave the album a 7 out of 10 rating. [2] Watts praised the eclectic mix of sounds on the album but said Gallo was at his best when "when occupying a place between the rawness of Jack White and lysergic drawl of Kevin Morby" [2]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Entitled Man" | 2:25 |
| 2. | "Foreground Music" | 3:11 |
| 3. | "At Least I'm Dancing" | 2:53 |
| 4. | "Vanity March" | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Yucca Valley Marshalls" | 3:43 |
| 6. | "San Benedetto" | 3:06 |
| 7. | "Can My Flowers Even Grow Here?" | 3:23 |
| 8. | "Big Truck Energy" | 3:56 |
| 9. | "Life Is A Privilege? (Interlude)" | 1:29 |
| 10. | "Anything But This" | 2:43 |
| 11. | "I Love Someone Buried Deep Inside of You" | 3:44 |
| Total length: | 34:43 | |
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