Fred Thomas

Perhaps one of the most influential statistics on Michigan’s indie rock and roll picture, Fred Thomas is most beneficial referred to as the creator and leader from the celebrated indie pop music group Saturday Looks Great to Me, however the remarkably prolific musician and songwriter continues to be involved in an abundance of other tasks, in addition to recording a small number of albums like a single artist. Thomas was created in Ypsilanti, Michigan on August 6, 1976. Thomas was raised absorbing affects from his parents’ record collection, that was dominated by Joni Mitchell, the Rolling Rocks, and Bob Dylan (his people would consider him to find out Dylan when he was nine), and after understanding how to make music from your clatter of varied household items, he used your guitar at age group 11. By enough time Thomas is at junior high, he’d began playing in rings with close friends from college, and in 1994, the 17-year-old Thomas created a math rock-band known as Chore, who performed thoroughly in Michigan and released East Coastline and West Coastline tours before divorce in 1996. After Task disbanded, Thomas immersed himself in a multitude of tasks — he documented and toured with Warren Defever’s experimental pop ensemble His Name Is usually Alive, and was an associate of emo-punk music group Lovesick in addition to chamber pop combo Flashpapr. In 1999, Thomas released Saturday Looks Great to Me like a house documenting project, affected by his friend Chris Fachini of Train Me Tiger; offering Thomas along with a revolving solid of close friends and music artists embracing an eclectic selection of pop affects, the very first SLGTM recording made an appearance in 2000, and after playing a small number of live shows beneath the name, once the music group Saves your day asked SLGTM to tour together in 2002, Thomas created a live edition of the group plus they hit the street. Between 2000 and 2007, Sunday Looks Good if you ask me released four correct albums and many singles and compilations, caused noted indie brands K Information and Polyvinyl Information (in addition to Thomas’ personal Ypsilanti Information), and toured thoroughly in america and European countries, with Thomas frequently became a member of by collaborators Scott Sellwood on keyboards, Betty Marie Barnes on vocals, and Ryan Howard on drums. In 2008, Sunday Looks Good if you ask me continued hiatus, and Thomas continuing to keep up a busy routine, developing the indie digital duo City Middle with SLGTM colleague Howard, playing acoustic guitar using the surf-influenced pop combo Swimsuit, documenting the recording Mighty Clouds with previous SLGTM vocalist Barnes, and providing as maker and engineer on recordings by functions such as for example NOMO, Tyvek, Beauclerk, and Corpse Kisser. He also began the life span Like label this year 2010, which released a large number of limited-edition tapes and LPs by numerous tasks of Thomas and his close friends, and a zine known as Defects Reflection. Thomas released his first genuine single recording in 2002, Everything Is definitely JUST ABOUT Totally Fucked Up, and a reliable blast of recordings possess followed, which range from cautiously crafted full-length albums to limited-edition experimental CD-Rs. In 2012, Thomas put together a new release of Saturday Appears Good if you ask me and began documenting and touring once again under the deal with, though typically it had been definately not his only musical automobile — that same 12 months, Thomas also made an appearance on a fresh recording from Ian Svenonius’ music group String & the Gang, offered as engineer and multi-instrumentalist on Hewn from your Wilderness by Calvin Johnson’s group the Hive Dwellers, and released an ambitious brand-new single record, Kuma. Another single work, the eclectic and personal EACH IS Saved, premiered by Polyvinyl within the springtime of 2015. After engaged and getting married and shifting to Montreal, Thomas documented the follow-up to all or any Are Saved in Athens, Georgia with manufacturer Drew Vandenburg. The record, titled Changer, premiered by Polyvinyl in early 2017.