Free As a Bird: Golden Suits’s Kubla Khan

A few weeks ago, I met Fred Nicolaus in Greenpoint to talk about Kubla Khan, the second album under his solo project, Golden Suits. Nicolaus first started writing songs for Golden Suits in 2011, coming off the success of Department of Eagles, of which he was one half; Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen, his freshman year college roommate, was the other.That day, our plan was to go to The Palace Café. Well, Nicolaus’s plan was to go to The Palace Café. The bar, built strangely