Atwood Chats With Fruit Bats
Atwood Magazine writes, “Out now via Merge Records, The Landfill is Fruit Bats’ twelfth album and one of the project’s most vibrant full-band statements to date. It arrives in Eric D. Johnson’s 25th year making music under the Fruit Bats name, following 2025’s intimate solo outing Baby Man and carrying that record’s immediacy into a bigger, brighter, more communal space. After years of patient songwriting and careful fine-tuning, Baby Man cracked open a different process – stream-of-consciousness, observational, alive in the moment – and Johnson brought that spark straight into Bear Creek Studios in Washington with his longtime touring band. The result is a record that feels loose without losing shape, deeply personal without closing itself off, and full of the kind of chemistry that can only happen when musicians trust each other enough to let the room breathe.”
The site has an interview with Johnson here. Read it, and get the album started at your station.
See Fruit Bats on tour:
7/16 – Winston-Salem, NC – The Ramkat
7/17 – Isle of Palms, SC – The Windjammer
7/18 – Asheville, NC – Hellbender at The Orange Peel
7/19 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
7/21 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall
7/23 – Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall
7/24 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
7/25 – Kingston, NY – Assembly
7/26 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre
9/30 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
10/1 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre
10/2 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater
10/3 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center For The Arts
10/7 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
10/9 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
10/10 – Victoria, BC – Capital Ballroom
10/11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
10/13 – Moscow, ID – University of Idaho
10/14 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
10/15 – Missoula, MT – The Wilma
10/16 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Commonwealth Room
10/17 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom
10/20 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall
10/21 – Iowa City, IA – Englert Civic Theatre
10/22 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
10/23 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
10/24 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed Indoors
11/5 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11/6 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom
11/7 – Boston, MA – Royale
11/8 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
11/11 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
11/12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Café
11/14 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
11/15 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
11/17 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
11/18 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
11/19 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
11/20 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s
11/21 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
