Well The Night Has Come marks the end of a fallow period for Fulton Lights’ Andrew Spencer Goldman. Available November 7 via Android Eats, the EP is his first new music since 2018 album Moonwalking Into The Future. And while its four songs may fall short of an opus, it’s a favorable portent for a guy who, for seven years, simply couldn’t bring home a slew of unfinished ideas.
Replenished by an unexpected nudge from on-and-off collaborator TJ Lipple (Aloha), Goldman packs in enough ideas for a full album, from the orchestral enormity of “Paloma Sadie May” to the alt-country/art-rock fusion of “These Notes Don’t Break” to the title track, which recasts lyrics from Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” as an epic lullaby for young inhabitants of our scary planet.
In the context of all that multitextured busyness, “Hold That Thought” presents like a conventional rocker before taking a spacey left turn that reflects its central theme: applying a little WD-40 to the hinges of those creative floodgates.
“In some ways, it’s a meditation and command on trying to remain open to those moments where creativity is born and capturing and releasing them before they dissipate,” says Goldman. “It can be an act of resistance against all the things conspiring to distract.”
We’re proud to premiere Fulton Lights’ “Hold That Thought.”
—Hobart Rowland
