“Met your mother at the hospital where she was waiting patiently for her new reassignment.” These are the lyrics Adam Stephens sings on Two Gallants‘ most recent fuzz-rock track, “Incidental.” The song charges forward as Stephens continues, “She had rusty hinges, I forgot my scalpel, she had indecision.” His voice is a valiant call, at times piercing with scruffy, torrid tones similar to the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg. In the stop-motion video for “Incidental,” the skin of a white, plastic, male figurine melts away, and (spoiler alert) there’s a woman inside. The song is off Two Gallants’ latest full-length, We Are Undone, released in February. The duo of Stephens (guitar, keys, vocals) and Tyson Vogel (drums, guitar, vocals) spent a month recording with engineer Karl Derfler (Tom Waits, Roky Erickson) at Panoramic House Studio in Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco. Stephens spoke from his Oakland home, while playing with his dogs in the backyard…
