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Fred Thomas (born August 6, 1976) is an American indie rock musician who was described by Mark Deming of AllMusic as " [o]ne of the most influential figures on Michigan 's indie rock scene". Thomas founded the math rock band Chore in 1994.
Fred Thomas is an American indie rock musician who was described by Mark Deming of AllMusic as "[o]ne of the most influential figures on Michigan's indie rock scene". Thomas founded the math rock band Chore in 1994.
- Chore Complete Recordings 1994-1996
- Lovesick Lovesick – A Discography
- Saturday Looks Good to Me Every Night
- Mighty Clouds Mighty Clouds
- City Center Redeemer
- Hydropark Circuit 2
- Failed Flower Failed Flowers
- Tyvek Changing Patterns of Protective Coating
- Stef Chura Messes
- XV XV
This late teenage trio is what Thomas considers his first band. “The boundless energy and boredom of youth meant we played pretty much constantly, doing any local show that was offered and even trying to get out of Michigan here and there for a few spotty, self-booked tours,” he recalls. “The music was informed by some of the math rock happening at...
“Chore played our last show in November of 1996, and about a year later we tried to regroup and do a new band with a different name and a sound that was less jittery,” Thomas remembers. When the drummer abandoned ship, Thomas took over drums while still singing lead vocals. “[Lovesick] took a more emo route, but I always thought of it as a punk ban...
Saturday Looks Good To Me began as a recording experiment while Lovesick was still active. “I basically made loops on the four track, added instruments until they sounded more like songs, and had different friends with better voices than me come over and sing on them. The response from people when I put out an LP of some of these songs in 2000 was ...
By the summer of 2009, Barnes had moved to Sweden, Thomas had moved to New York, Saturday Looks Good to Me had stopped playing, and Thomas was “kind of floating around after the lengthy Chain & The Gang/Calvin Johnsontour [he’d] just gotten off of.” While he and Betty were both in Michigan visiting family, they got together for a single day to hang...
City Center was a direct response to the spacial limitations of small apartments and unaffordable practice spaces when Thomas moved to New York. It meant he had to learn how to work within the confines of his bedroom and figure out recording on a computer after years of working with tape. “This also coincided with being in a different state than my...
“Hydroparkwas another slow-forming collaborative band that started once I began getting into synthesizer music,” Thomas says. “We formed in 2013 and would play shows maybe twice a year, and tour every so often, but we got together [to practice and record] every week. We made a more straightforward LP and a few EPs, but this record is a mixtape-styl...
Failed Flowers started when Thomas and his close friend and former roommate, Miles Haney, were “obsessing about Sarah Records and early twee bands.” They got together with friends Erin Davis and Autumn Wetli, “with those sounds in mind, but also with the idea that we could take it wherever it went,” Thomas explains. “The first round of songs was ki...
Tyvek’s singer/songwriter/guitarist/principal member, Kevin Boyer, is someone Thomas has known since they were really young. “I’ve loved his songs since he was a high school punker,” Thomas says. “In 2002, he recorded a pre-Tyvek solo album in my basement, and about ten years later, well after he’d established Tyvek as a worldwide force of articula...
Stef Chura moved to Ypsilanti around the same time Thomas moved back from his stint in New York. “She was a pretty active social presence around town, and part of that was playing her songs at different house party type shows and functions. She played low impact gigs like this for a long time, and started taking things up a notch when we were worki...
Thomas considers this one of the most exciting records he has ever worked on. “XVis best described as free punk, and it’s the combined energies of three of my closest friends: Emily Roll, Shelley Salant, and Claire Cirocco,” he says. “The complete freedom that this trio approached the studio with was staggering. The first song here, ‘Lamp,’ was com...
May 12, 2015 · From Fred Thomas' full-length album, All Are Saved, available here:CD/LP/MP3 - http://bit.ly/1Fy091NStream/download: http://smarturl.it/all-are-savedDirected...
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- Polyvinyl Records
Nov 14, 2016 · Fred Thomas’ new album, Changer, is about the constant nature of transformation, in the same way his music — both his solo work and as part of Saturday Looks Good To Me — has always been about...
- James Rettig
Dec 6, 2016 · Fred Thomas, Changer. Courtesy of the artist. The forthcoming album Changer is a reflection on life coming on fast. It is at once neurotically nostalgic in how Thomas looks backward and...
Jan 17, 2017 · An indie-rock lifer with too many aliases to count, he has been creating imperfect, emotional music so consistently that any record that felt like a capstone on a particular phase of his...
