{"id":3271,"date":"2015-04-15T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T18:42:12","slug":"fred-thomas-all-are-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/fred-thomas-all-are-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thomas <br>All Are Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fred_thomas-all_are_saved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3272\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fred_thomas-all_are_saved.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Thomas, All Are Saved\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fred_thomas-all_are_saved.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fred_thomas-all_are_saved-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>If you spent even a modicum of time listening to college radio in the early 2000s you likely stumbled upon Michigan\u2019s Saturday Looks Good To Me. Led by Fred Thomas, the band\u2019s experimental indie-pop records seemed made for a more freewheeling environment than even alternative rock radio could provide. The band released seven albums and a handful of EPs between 2000 and 2007 before breaking up only to reunite in 2012. As such, it seems like Thomas dry-docked the band to focus on his two other projects, City Center and Failed Flowers, as well as a solo career that seems to have been purposely kept low-key. For his eighth and most recent solo release, <i>All Are Saved<\/i> (Polyvinyl), Thomas appears ready to shine a light on his solo endeavors, as it is his first to get widespread distribution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not particularly clear why now is the time to go public, but <i>All Are Saved<\/i> reveals that Thomas is ready for his close-up. Saturday Looks Good To Me never had one signature sound, and the experimental approach to pop let them push and pull against expectations and convention. This record has a similar tension. While it could be slotted into the singer-songwriter category, Thomas messes with expectations in similar ways. With shades of Lou Reed\u2019s \u201cDirty Blvd.\u201d and Springsteen\u2019s \u201cGlory Days,\u201d the approach is closer to spoken word than straight-up singing. That\u2019s not to say that it\u2019s devoid of pure-pop vocals\u2014\u201cMonster Movie\u201d is a particularly lovely turn\u2014but Thomas seems slightly more interested in being as direct as possible with the record\u2019s narratives. And it works very well. That\u2019s due to Thomas\u2019 ability to balance each song\u2019s elements and his knack for drawing a scene, as on songs like \u201cBad Blood,\u201d where his narrator simultaneously lashes out at a peer (\u201cWe pass on the street and say \u2018hi\u2019 cuz we have to, when both of us are really just like, \u2018I fucking hate you.\u2019\u201d) and himself (\u201cI know, I know. I know it\u2019s disgusting how much I think about myself in relation to nothing, things that aren\u2019t going to stay, just aren\u2019t going to stay.\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Musically, <i>All Are Saved<\/i> is an upended Tinkertoy box. Abstract soundscapes are roughly sewn to straight-ahead guitar parts, and horns wander in casually, while synths occasionally chug away in the background. There are some full band moments, but they pop up like soldiers with a day pass. It\u2019s hard to find moments that aren\u2019t filled with fiddly production bits, but somehow it doesn\u2019t feel fussy or arbitrary. And with most songs hovering around the three-minute mark, the quirks don\u2019t get a chance to drag on. It\u2019s also interesting to note that the songs are generally hook-free, but nevertheless memorable. <i>All Are Saved<\/i> shows that Thomas has a lot of things to say and interesting ways to say them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spent even a modicum of time listening to college radio in the early 2000s you likely stumbled upon Michigan\u2019s Saturday Looks Good To Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1219,489],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-fred-thomas","tag-polyvinyl-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fred Thomas All Are Saved - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/fred-thomas-all-are-saved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fred Thomas All Are Saved - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you spent even a modicum of time listening to college radio in the early 2000s you likely stumbled upon Michigan\u2019s Saturday Looks Good To Me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/fred-thomas-all-are-saved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-15T18:39:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-04-27T18:42:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fred_thomas-all_are_saved.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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