City Center

Another project from the prolific <a href="spotify:artist:6QA7spY3kFRPGsl2xV4QTf">Fred Thomas</a>, City Center took his music in an atmospheric, often electronic direction more reminiscent of <a href="spotify:artist:3kGhAL9j1WyNjNkWTRQd8T">Atlas Sound</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:1R84VlXnFFULOsWWV8IrCQ">Panda Bear</a> than the flawlessly structured songs of <a href="spotify:artist:4C6aTpsTzZASFFVwa7uhfL">Saturday Looks Good to Me</a> and his solo work. Taking the project's name from the "city center" signs found in many European cities, <a href="spotify:artist:6QA7spY3kFRPGsl2xV4QTf">Thomas</a> began recording as City Center during <a href="spotify:artist:4C6aTpsTzZASFFVwa7uhfL">Saturday Looks Good to Me</a>'s post -Fill Up the Room hiatus, posting songs on the project's blog and issuing CD-Rs and cassettes on labels like Invisible Friend and Green Records & Tapes in early 2008. <a href="spotify:artist:6QA7spY3kFRPGsl2xV4QTf">Thomas</a> recorded a full-length, self-titled City Center album for Type Records before Ryan Howard made the project a duo; the album was released in spring 2009. After releaseing EPs for Troubleman Records and M'Lady's Record, the pair released their second full-length, Redeemer, through K Records in 2011. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi