Politically and socially charged singer/songwriter Tom Gabel made a name for himself because the lead singer and guitarist for genre-bending Florida punk outfit Against Me!, a music group he began after dropping from senior high school at age 17 after many years of pursuing his military family members all over the world. After breaking big with 2007’s New Influx, Gabel went in to the studio room to cut an instant and timely solo record dealing with the existing political and financial state. The causing seven-song EP Heart Uses up arrived in past due 2008.