“Two decades into a prolific and confounding career, the singer-songwriter Fred Thomas found his voice as an aggrieved, too-smart-for-his-own-good townie on 2015's stellar All Are Saved. Ironically, life stopped imitating art around that time, as he moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Montreal. To record his new album, Changer, Thomas resettled in the university hub of Athens, Georgia, and his music”