Fruit Bats
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4 months ago
Please say hello to MY SWEET MIDWEST 🙌 It’s a homecoming of sorts in Chicago, the town I love and where I got this whole thing going 😭 October 19th at the Salt Shed we’more
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Leanna
July 28th 2024
They are wonderful! Great performers! Lead singer is passionate and engaging with the audience. I can’t wait to see them again! 👌🏼❤️
Lexington, KY@The Burl
Nick
May 20th 2024
Fruit Bats are always amazing. Never left one of their shows without a smile on my face. Opening band wasn’t quite a good fit, and was twice as loud as Fruit Bats. But that’s my only complaint. Fruit Bats sounded incredible and have such a deep catalog of great and danceable songs ranging from psychedelic to country to disco to classic rock, and everything in between. If you haven’t seen them live, you are missing out!
Seattle, WA@The Crocodile
Josh
May 19th 2024
Unbelievable sound and absolutely immaculate vibes. This show was a spiritual experience and right up there in my top five live shows of all time - with Radiohead, Jack White and LCD Soundsystem. Hard to put a finger on Fruit Bats sound but I would say it’s a blend of all things beautiful: indie rock nostalgia and wistfulness with a healthy dose of upbeat grooves. Go see them!
Seattle, WA@The Crocodile
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About Fruit Bats
Hello from in here to all you out there.
Fruit Bats’ eighth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for your trust and attention, but also an assurance in lonely times—a distillation of melancholy wrapped in a danceable waltz.
“The Pet Parade,” the title track to Fruit Bats’ newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson’s beloved indie folk-rock project.The six-and-a-half-minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence.
At times upbeat and reassuring (“Eagles Below Us”) and at times quietly contemplative (“On the Avalon Stairs”), The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit Bats has consistently earned enough small victories to carve out a career in a notoriously fickle scene.
Fruit Bats’ eighth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for your trust and attention, but also an assurance in lonely times—a distillation of melancholy wrapped in a danceable waltz.
“The Pet Parade,” the title track to Fruit Bats’ newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson’s beloved indie folk-rock project.The six-and-a-half-minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence.
At times upbeat and reassuring (“Eagles Below Us”) and at times quietly contemplative (“On the Avalon Stairs”), The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit Bats has consistently earned enough small victories to carve out a career in a notoriously fickle scene.
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Genres:
Folk, Indie, Alternative
Hometown:
Portland, Oregon
No upcoming shows in your city
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concerts and tour dates
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Live Photos of Fruit Bats
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Latest Post
Fruit Bats
4 months ago
Please say hello to MY SWEET MIDWEST 🙌 It’s a homecoming of sorts in Chicago, the town I love and where I got this whole thing going 😭 October 19th at the Salt Shed we’more
Fruit Bats's tour
Fan Reviews
Leanna
July 28th 2024
They are wonderful! Great performers! Lead singer is passionate and engaging with the audience. I can’t wait to see them again! 👌🏼❤️
Lexington, KY@The Burl
Nick
May 20th 2024
Fruit Bats are always amazing. Never left one of their shows without a smile on my face. Opening band wasn’t quite a good fit, and was twice as loud as Fruit Bats. But that’s my only complaint. Fruit Bats sounded incredible and have such a deep catalog of great and danceable songs ranging from psychedelic to country to disco to classic rock, and everything in between. If you haven’t seen them live, you are missing out!
Seattle, WA@The Crocodile
Josh
May 19th 2024
Unbelievable sound and absolutely immaculate vibes. This show was a spiritual experience and right up there in my top five live shows of all time - with Radiohead, Jack White and LCD Soundsystem. Hard to put a finger on Fruit Bats sound but I would say it’s a blend of all things beautiful: indie rock nostalgia and wistfulness with a healthy dose of upbeat grooves. Go see them!
Seattle, WA@The Crocodile
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About Fruit Bats
Hello from in here to all you out there.
Fruit Bats’ eighth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for your trust and attention, but also an assurance in lonely times—a distillation of melancholy wrapped in a danceable waltz.
“The Pet Parade,” the title track to Fruit Bats’ newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson’s beloved indie folk-rock project.The six-and-a-half-minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence.
At times upbeat and reassuring (“Eagles Below Us”) and at times quietly contemplative (“On the Avalon Stairs”), The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit Bats has consistently earned enough small victories to carve out a career in a notoriously fickle scene.
Fruit Bats’ eighth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for your trust and attention, but also an assurance in lonely times—a distillation of melancholy wrapped in a danceable waltz.
“The Pet Parade,” the title track to Fruit Bats’ newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson’s beloved indie folk-rock project.The six-and-a-half-minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence.
At times upbeat and reassuring (“Eagles Below Us”) and at times quietly contemplative (“On the Avalon Stairs”), The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit Bats has consistently earned enough small victories to carve out a career in a notoriously fickle scene.
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Genres:
Folk, Indie, Alternative
Hometown:
Portland, Oregon
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