Magnet Goes Track-By-Track With Fruit Bats

New Fruit Bats LP Baby Man, writes Magnet, “is an unadulterated portrait of an artist at the top of his game, alone with his thoughts, a few instruments and heaps of knee-jerk inspiration. Johnson’s singing has never sounded more vulnerable and alive, and the music—stripped back, disarmingly real and achingly beautiful—matches the revelatory mood.” The magazine breaks the album down track-by-track with Eric D Johnson in a new feature out today; check it out here.

Out now via Merge, Baby Man broke into the NACC Top 40 this week and is aiming for new heights next week. Get it started at your station, and get ready to see Fruit Bats live:

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