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  • Summary: The second solo release for the Toy Soldiers singer/guitarist was produced with Joe Bisirri.
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Young Lady, You're Scaring Me
Let's get a house, you and me and your twelve cats We'll put mirrors on the ceiling We'll have a bunk bed by the bath You'll line my mattress with... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Uncut
    Feb 17, 2017
    80
    Splic[es] savage wit and cynicism with hopefulness. [Apr 2017, p.28]
  2. Feb 13, 2017
    80
    This is tough, smart, impassioned rock & roll with a sense of purpose and lots of swagger, performed with the confidence of a veteran and the scrap of a newcomer. It's heady stuff well worth your attention.
  3. 80
    It’s a swaggering, easy-to-digest introduction to an artist whose combination of committed vocals, sharp song construction and offbeat, often dark-edged concepts is as creative and snarky as the inspired tongue-in-cheek title of this impressive debut.
  4. Feb 13, 2017
    80
    It gets better with every play, mixing punk with glam with fuzz guitar, recalling everything from the Rolling Stones to Jack White. It is just heavy enough, and it is also meta.
  5. 60
    It’s not always pretty--his blast of antipathy “Can’t Stand You” is just relentless disparagement, with none of the subtlety of “Positively 4th Street”; ultimately, it’s small wonder to find him, in “Poor Traits Of The Artist”, caught between loving and hating his need to create.
  6. Mojo
    Mar 21, 2017
    60
    Shrieky-voiced, Jad fair-esque solo set of mid-70s Bowery oddball punk. [May 2017, p.98]
  7. Mar 7, 2017
    40
    Heavy Meta is most likeable when he directs those high standards inwards. ... More often though, Gallo is on the offensive, and his technically commensurate and frequently enjoyable garage rock gets entangled in a scornfulness that becomes a little uncomfortable.
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