“Good Times Are Gone Again” is the first release off of Fred Thomas’ latest record, Aftering. The album marks the end of a trilogy of records that represented a musical turning point for the artist after a decades-long career. Modelled after Neil Young’s On The Beach in terms of song structure and track sequencing, Aftering offers up more of Thomas’ signature vulnerability presented over glistening indie hooks.
“Good Times Are Gone Again” is Thomas’ ode to the summer of 2018 where human existence seems just a little bit terrible. “It's about the feeling of exhaustion and ground-down gears from processing increasingly bad news all the time,” says Thomas.
The track makes the listener feel bad about the world in the best way possible; set over bright chords and a catchy piano riff that builds to a satisfying close, while Thomas sings a simple chorus of “bad things are happening now.” Indeed Fred, indeed.
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