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80
Similar to All Are Saved, he delivers his thoughts at a mile a minute, eschewing hooks and choruses in favor of poetic narratives about touring experiences, feeling disconnected at parties, worthless temporary jobs, and a general questioning of where all of this is leading.
9y
75
In wading through the doubts of a risky life decision that the album itself represents, Changer is charmingly meta.
9y
71
In the last year, indie rock lifer Fred Thomas got married, quit his day job, and moved to Canada, but Changer isn’t about that. It’s about getting older and how the weight of expectations is a bitch.
9y
70
The sound of Changer is many things at once that are all part of the same — intimate, bittersweet, drifting, unable ever completely to calm down even when meditating on a feeling.
9y
70
Changer embraces the contradictions, the white-knuckled feelings of the glide toward middle age and the fear that the future may not necessarily bring us any more happiness than the past. Somebody had to say it and Thomas’ pronouncements certainly feel as raw and revealing as we could hope.
8y
Fred Thomas’s 2017 magnum opus is filled to the brim with scrapbook dreams, broken glass and bittersweet lyrical themes that you’d find nowhere else. This is one of my favorite albums of all time!! It’s an indie rock masterpiece, it’s a shame how this, and the rest of Fred’s vast catalog, are so underground. When my friend @snoozeybro introduced me to this album, I had to give it a shot, and lo and behold, it… took a bit of time to really click. But I still ... read more
Thank you @lincoln for recommending me this album!
Very passionate indie rock with some amazing vocals, what more can i say! The energy and passion clearly shows through with each song that plays!
Favorite Track: Echolocation
Least Favorite Track: Changer
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Track List
| 1 | Misremembered 2:51 | 83 |
| 2 | Reactionary 2:08 | 79 |
| 3 | 2008 2:47 | 81 |
| 4 | Brickwall 2:49 | 80 |
| 5 | Open Letter to Forever 1:53 | 75 |
| 6 | Changer 1:00 | 60 |
| 7 | Voiceover 2:46 | 86 |
| 8 | There Is No Need to Participate 1:54 | 83 |
| 9 | August Rats, Young Sociopaths 2:51 | 80 |
| 10 | Echolocation 2:56 | 81 |
| 11 | Infuriated 3:49 | 83 |
| 12 | Oval Beach 2:58 | 86 |
| 13 | Mallwalkers 4:05 | 83 |
Total Length: 34 minutes
