Best Rock Trojan Horse

On February’s Heavy Meta, the latest from Nashville transplant Ron Gallo, the former Philadelphian employs what we at the Scene like to refer to as the Trojan-horse approach to rock ’n’ roll: Get inside the city gates with thumping bass lines and red-hot licks, then eviscerate everyone with insightful lyricism. With caustic call-out anthems “Why Do You Have Kids” and “Can’t Stand You” and the withered-romance postmortem “Put the Kids to Bed,” Gallo tops Jon Spencer-, Stooges- and Zeppelin-informed blues-rock with lyrics that actually, y’know, say something. D. PATRICK RODGERS

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