Florida's Galia Social Traverse Bright Hues of Prog and Alt Rock with ‘Follow'

The duo of guitarist-vocalist Christian Logaglio and drummer Colby Peters talk about unveiling the first part of a narrative about an individual’s rise to power

- ANURAG TAGAT

By guitarist-vocalist Christian Logaglio’s own admission, the release of American rock band Galia Social’s latest record Rise in January 2020 was “not the best time to launch a project.” Of course, this is in hindsight, considering the Orlando-based duo – whose other half is drummer Colby Peters – were just raring to go big with the seven-track concept record. Logaglio recalls over a video call, “We were gonna start rehearsing the set, and then the global pandemic hit. Then we’re kind of sitting there like, ‘Alright, well, not only can we not tour, we also can’t play a show anywhere.’”

Galia Social – who have been around for about a decade and run through different iterations and even sonic styles that ranged from instrumental rock to prog – also lost their studio and rehearsal space due to the havoc that was the pandemic in the U.S. It’s not lost on Logaglio that Florida’s most famous tourist destination – Disneyland – opened early enough into the pandemic but there’s been “close to zero gigs” in Orlando.

In the midst of all this, however, they knew they had released their debut album