Spectrum Culture Applauds Fruit Bats’ Stripped-Down Turn On Baby Man

“On Baby Man,” writes Spectrum Culture, Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson “strips away the ornate textures that have defined much of his recent output and lands on something starker, but more resonant. It’s not Fruit Bats music you’d use to populate a road trip playlist, nor is it the kind made to fill festival setlists. It is one that lingers, even in the quietest moments, when the grey tickles and black pressures of aging, memory and meaning begin to press in. It’s deceptively small, an act of turning the party’s volume down and inviting you into a quieter, more private room, but one whose angles make for more intimate company.” The site has a review of the full LP, which is at radio now via Merge Records and looking for more airplay. Check that out here.

Fruit Bats’ US tour begins this week:

10/16 – Ojai, CA – Ojai Valley Woman’s Club
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
10/18 – San Francisco, CA  –The Chapel (Two Shows)
10/20 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
10/22 – Stoughton, WI – Stoughton Opera House
10/23 – Minneapolis, MN – Icehouse
10/24 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/25 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/27 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
10/29 – Toronto, ON – Longboat Hall
10/30 – Buffalo, NY – The Ninth Ward
10/31 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
11/1 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/2 – Cambridge, MA – Sinclair