Fulton Lights

On November 7, Andrew Spencer Goldman’s Fulton Lights will return with a four-song EP Well the Night Has Come. Written and produced by Goldman and mixed by Grammy-nominated Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Book of Knots) at Studio G, the EP comes after a long fallow period and marks the first Fulton Lights recordings since 2018’s Moonwalking into the Future.

Fulton Lights has shared the EP's lead single, “Hold That Thought,” which is now streaming everywhere. The song features John Davis (Q and Not U / Georgie James / Title Tracks / Paint Branch) on backing vocals, opening with shades of Zuma-era Neil Young before swerving unexpectedly into Augustus Pablo territory with space-echoed melodica. It’s a quintessential Fulton Lights move: sidestepping the expected guitar layers for an arrangement that feels both surprising and inevitable.

“The song is about trying to stay open to the sparks of creativity and catching them before they dissipate,” says Goldman. “It can be an act of resistance against all the things conspiring to distract.”

Created with longtime collaborators TJ Lipple (Aloha), Jean Cook (Ida, Waco Brothers, Beauty Pill), and Adam Ollendorff (Will Hoge, Kacey Musgraves, Lera Lynn), the EP moves between shimmering textures, adventurous arrangements, and unexpected turns. Standouts include “Paloma Sadie May,” which grows from hushed guitar vibrato into orchestral bursts, and “These Notes Don’t Break,” a hazy, pedal steel–drenched meditation on mental health.

Well the Night Has Come flips some of the lyrics of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” into a dark lullaby, a father’s song to a child in the face of something terrifying. “When my older daughter was little I used to sing “Stand by Me” to her almost every night at bedtime. Twisting the words around it carries a lot of my own fears about the future of the planet, but the song is full of love,” says Goldman. With string and horn arrangements from Karen Waltuch (75 Dollar Bill, Wilco) and Justin Mullens, it’s both homage and reinvention.

Well the Night Has Come finds Fulton Lights embracing risk, texture, and emotion—proof that even after years away, the project still surprises while aiming for the heart.