Only Good Thoughts Can Stay

From the first euphoric lines of album opener "Hungry Like A Tiger" to the unstoppable catharsis of the seven-minute barnburner sing-along "Juicy Fruit," Only Good Thoughts Can Stay weaves a dense fabric of instrumentation around a central narrative patchwork. Lyrically, Jared Mees has forgone the strictly first-person storytelling that characterized 2008's Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money in favor of embodying the perspectives and personal experiences of close friends and family, including his wife ("W.W.J.B.D."), his brother ("Billy Bird"), and longtime friend ("Inaudible Song"), all of whom shared many of the trials and tribulations that provided inspiration for the record.