Changer

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.

It’s a phase that all aging indie rockers enter: years of breakthroughs that never were, fatigue of the fruitless treadmill of recording and touring, peers peeling off in droves to start careers and families—when is it worth stepping back from the dream for a little stability? The latest atop the mound of albums Fred…

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