Ron Gallo to release new studio album Stardust Birthday Party

Philly-raised artist Ron Gallo will release his sophomore album, Stardust Birthday Party on October 5th via New West. Today he shares the debut track from the album, his philosophical panacea, It’s All Gonna Be OK.

Stardust Birthday Party is the follow up to Ron Gallo’s debut album Heavy Meta which was critically acclaimed. It was Gallo at his angriest, most disillusioned self. Amidst the typical political and social chaos in America and going through a break-up with a partner who suffered from addiction and mental illness, Gallo funneled his frustrations in to this frenetic debut.

A life-altering, seismic shift in Gallo’s life is what led to Stardust Birthday Party - a counterpoint to Heavy Meta and a spiritual 180. The girl he’d been seeing had taken herself to South America at the height of her addiction, found a healer and had miraculously come out on the other side in 2016. It got Gallo’s interest piqued in an inward path and he began reading and searching.

Stardust Birthday Party follows Ron Gallo’s journey through awakening via self-deconstruction, kicking off with the simple prompt - Who Are You? (Point to it!). The album examines the tent poles of self loathing, anxiety and distraction on songs like Always Elsewhere, Party Tumor and Do You Love Your Company? ultimately leading to the answer on You’ Are The Problem. The second half of the album embodies the subtle slow shift into a more light, loving and compassionate outlook. Gallo pays tribute to John Coltrane’s own spiritual awakening on Love Supreme (Work Together!) named after the jazz artist’s seminal album. The record closes with Happy Deathday, a palette cleanser that challenges you to forget everything you’ve known. Throughout Stardust Birthday Party you’ll find that Gallo’s signature weirdo punk-poet persona is in full tact despite the absence of anger. The guitars are fuzzy and loud and there’s an urgency balanced with his new found OM.

"It’s All Gonna be OK is about, no matter what it is, because all feeling, thought and experience is temporary. It could be in one second or 20 years but, to trust that it’s all going exactly as it should is true and liberating. i like to remind myself of this often and figured might as well share this thought with others via a mostly one chord song featuring my trumpet debut heard in the outro of the song. It’s All Gonna Be OK is the main message, and Stardust Birthday Party is me explaining WHY?...from my own experience looking inside” - Ron Gallo. Listen to the single below.

Ron Gallo will be touring through Europe in August:

• 17 Aug - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
• 18 Aug - Pukkelpop, Hasselt (BE)
• 24 Aug - Fuzz Club Festival, Eindhoven (NL)