Saturday Looks Good to Me

Saturday Looks Good to Me is an American experimental indie pop band that formed in 1999.^[3] The group is led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas (former member of His Name Is Alive). Albums by the group are known for soundscapes which hearken back to Detroit soul.^[4]

Saturday Looks Good to Me
Origin	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Genres	Indie pop
Years active	1999–present
Labels	K Records (United States) Polyvinyl (United States) Popfrenzy (Australia) HDIF (United Kingdom)
Members	Fred Thomas[1] Scott DeRoche Caroline Catherine Amber Fellows Shelley Salant[2]
Past members	Scott Sellwood Juan Briz Garcia Ryan Howard Andrew Hoepfner Betty Marie Barnes Chris Bathgate Carol Gray Josh Bay Autumn Wetli

The band was originally conceived as a basement recording project and did not play any live shows until 2002. The band built up a considerable following on the back of numerous limited-edition 7" record and CD-R releases, resulting in the indie pop albums All Your Summer Songs, released in 2003 on Polyvinyl Records, and Every Night, released in 2004 on Polyvinyl.^[5] All Your Summer Songs was listed as one of the top 50 albums of 2003 by Pitchfork.^[6] Every Night introduced new singer Betty Marie Barnes, who became the nearest to a permanent female singer that the band ever had.

By 2007, Barnes had semi-left the band and Thomas took over as the band's sole front person. SLGTM's music also changed and the resulting Fill Up The Room (2007, K Recs) album was more adventurous both lyrically and musically than the band's previous two albums.^[7]

Following another European tour in 2008, Thomas retired the band to concentrate on other projects including City Center, and his record label, Life Like.

The band reunited in 2012 with a changed line-up, and released "Sunglasses"^[8] on Polyvinyl Records. For Record Store Day 2012, All Your Summer Songs was re-issued on white vinyl in a special limited edition of 250.^[9] The band released One Kiss Ends It All in 2013, and continued touring into 2015.^[1][10]

Discography

Albums

• Saturday Looks Good to Me (hereforeveralways, 2000)
• Cruel August Moon (Little Hands, 2001)
• Love Will Find You (Whistletap, 2002)
• All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl, 2003)
• Every Night (Polyvinyl, 2004)
• Sound on Sound (Redder Records, 2006)
• Fill Up the Room (K Records / How Does It Feel To Be Loved, 2007)
• One Kiss Ends It All (Polyvinyl, 2013)

Other releases

• Cassingle Series #3 (Sanitary Records, April 2006)
• "The Girl Is Distracted"
• Green Mansions (limited tour EP)
• "Money in the Afterlife" / "All the Sidewalk Birds" (Ernest Jenning Record Co., February 20, 2007)
• Cold Colors EP (Polyvinyl – July 24, 2007)
• "Dianne Falling Off Her Horse" / "Springtime Judgment" (Ernest Jenning Record Co., July 8, 2008)
• "Saturday Looks Good to Me : Tour Tape" cassette (Life Like – 2012)
• "Sunglasses" (Polyvinyl, 2012)