(00:04:30) Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebodyġ. (00:04:52) Fruit Bats - Slipping Through the Sensorsġ0. (00:06:26) Fruit Bats - The Little AcornĨ. With an emphasis on the bigger picture of life as it relates to nature's organic relationship to man and irrational, spontaneous moments of beauty and rebirth, "Spelled In Bones" proffers warm, thoughtful, bittersweet pop that's as hopeful as it is curious.įor fans of : The Shins, The Decemberists, The Arcade FireĤ.
Stick ‘em in a popular romantic comedy and watch this band become household names.Īround the release of "Mouthfuls", Harp magazine described the Fruit Bats as residing somewhere on a continuum between Califone and The Shins, combining ".the latter's widescreen vision with the former's melodic knack to create something at once familiar and new." This is Eric Johnson's enlightened Romantic opus - in the 18th century English literary sense of the term. "Earthquake of '73," "Lives of Crims" and "Born in the ‘70s" – these are big, beautiful, elegiac songs.
Spelled is a minor shift towards bigger things: the themes are more cosmic and the music sounds less like the product of bedroom strumming than before. In her stead we have Dan Strack, who played with principal singer-songwriter Eric Johnson in the poorly named but excellent band I, Rowboat. If you're a devotee, you should know that Gillian Lisee is not on this record. If you've never heard the Fruit Bats, imagine a less ambitious version of the Shins, a well-worn copy of American Beauty replacing Seventeen Seconds on the turntable, and you're pretty close.
This is folk-based pop music that's meditative, fun, and deliriously repetitive. Here's an awesome album for floating around back country roads in an old Volvo station wagon. Everyday That We Wake Up It's a Beautiful Day
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