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Baby Man changed that - he disallowed himself from referring to material he'dbeen working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique ofstream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoonrecording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson's skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.Baby Man's closeness to Johnson's heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument it'sminimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a newfull band effort. \"That session was over,\" he explains, \"but there was way more to explore. 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Listening to The Landfill, it's not hard to understand why:simply put, this band smokes.Producing the initial recording sessions in Washington's Bear Creek Studios, Johnson set outto capture \"the sound of this band I constantly marvel at, the feeling of being in a room withmusicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.\" They laid most of it down on thefloor - no click tracks, no comped vocals, and minimal overdubs, with frequent collaboratorThom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill's final mix. \"It'show we do things with my other band, Bonny Light Horseman, and I was curious to see howit would work with Fruit Bats,\" Johnson notes. \"It's both a very personal record, and my mostcollaborative to date.\"It's also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009's The Ruminant Band, and inparing back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song, the psychedelic,technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into thesublime as the band gels around Johnson's hazy croon on \"That Goddamn Sun,\" stretching outto accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balancebetween ecstatic romance and melancholia, \"Think Aboutcha\" occupies the blissful-but-doomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakesthat are larger than life, while \"Perhaps We're a Storm\" charges headlong into the unknown.All of these songs - most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact - mark themselvesimmediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson's ever-expanding songbook, seekers andanthems alike. 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Baby Man changed that - he disallowed himself from referring to material he'dbeen working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique ofstream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoonrecording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson's skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.Baby Man's closeness to Johnson's heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument it'sminimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a newfull band effort. \"That session was over,\" he explains, \"but there was way more to explore. Iliked the immediacy of it, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band FruitBats record.\" Within weeks, he was back in a studio, this time with his band - David Dawda(bass), Josh Mease (guitars, synth), Frank LoCrasto (piano, synth), and Kosta Galanopoulos(drums) - with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of themost in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill, it's not hard to understand why:simply put, this band smokes.Producing the initial recording sessions in Washington's Bear Creek Studios, Johnson set outto capture \"the sound of this band I constantly marvel at, the feeling of being in a room withmusicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.\" They laid most of it down on thefloor - no click tracks, no comped vocals, and minimal overdubs, with frequent collaboratorThom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill's final mix. \"It'show we do things with my other band, Bonny Light Horseman, and I was curious to see howit would work with Fruit Bats,\" Johnson notes. \"It's both a very personal record, and my mostcollaborative to date.\"It's also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009's The Ruminant Band, and inparing back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song, the psychedelic,technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into thesublime as the band gels around Johnson's hazy croon on \"That Goddamn Sun,\" stretching outto accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balancebetween ecstatic romance and melancholia, \"Think Aboutcha\" occupies the blissful-but-doomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakesthat are larger than life, while \"Perhaps We're a Storm\" charges headlong into the unknown.All of these songs - most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact - mark themselvesimmediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson's ever-expanding songbook, seekers andanthems alike. 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This is the starting point, the songs that had been kicking around looking for a suitable home, and they found it here.  With backing from many of the members of Califone, Fruit Bats made a lush and understated record that has stood the test of time.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Fruit Bats","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45732607295686,"sku":"VRY1SH-OWTW-00","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/fruit-bats-echolation_vLl8a.jpg?v=1776427155"},{"product_id":"the-fruit-bats-the-landfill-pink-splatter-in-clear-vinyl","title":"The Fruit Bats - The Landfill (Pink Splatter in Clear) [Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots, parks, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart.Over the course of his now 25-year career under the Fruit Bats moniker, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs, to borrow a phrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that — he disallowed himself from referring to material he’d been working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique of stream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon recording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson’s skill as a singersongwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.Baby Man’s closeness to Johnson’s heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument its minimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new full band effort. “That session was over,” he explains, “but there was way more to explore. I liked the immediacy of it, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit Bats record.” Within weeks, he was back in a studio, this time with his band — David Dawda (bass), Josh Mease (guitars, synth), Frank LoCrasto (piano, synth), and Kosta Galanopoulos (drums) — with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of the most in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill, it’s not hard to understand why: simply put, this band smokes.Producing the initial recording sessions in Washington’s Bear Creek Studios, Johnson set out to capture “the sound of this band I constantly marvel at, the feeling of being in a room with musicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.” They laid most of it down on the floor — no click tracks, no comped vocals, and minimal overdubs, with frequent collaborator Thom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill’s final mix. “It’s how we do things with my other band, Bonny Light Horseman, and I was curious to see how it would work with Fruit Bats,” Johnson notes. “It’s both a very personal record, and my most collaborative to date.”It's also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009’s The Ruminant Band, and in paring back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song, the psychedelic, technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into the sublime as the band gels around Johnson’s hazy croon on “That Goddamn Sun,” stretching out to accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance between ecstatic romance and melancholia, “Think Aboutcha” occupies the blissful-butdoomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakes that are larger than life, while “Perhaps We’re a Storm” charges headlong into the unknown.All of these songs — most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact — mark themselves immediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson’s ever-expanding songbook, seekers and anthems alike. It’s the most daunting peak he’s scaled yet, musically or lyrically: a swashbuckling set of full-band jammers couldn’t be more honest and open-hearted about his hopes and anxieties, his dreams and failures, what’s passed and what will come to pass, were it just him, his guitar, and the listener.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: Merge Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Alternative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Fruit Bats","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839172600006,"sku":"32C5NP-SU9B-00","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/the-landfill-pink-splatter-in-clear_NjvZd.jpg?v=1778688966"},{"product_id":"fruit-bats-the-landfill-cd","title":"Fruit Bats - The Landfill [CD]","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. 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His songs, to borrow a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ephrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ememory. Baby Man changed that - he disallowed himself from referring to material he'd\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebeen working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson's skill as a singer-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esongwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBaby Man's closeness to Johnson's heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument it's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eminimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efull band effort. \"That session was over,\" he explains, \"but there was way more to explore. 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Time and space melt into the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esublime as the band gels around Johnson's hazy croon on \"That Goddamn Sun,\" stretching out\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebetween ecstatic romance and melancholia, \"Think Aboutcha\" occupies the blissful-but-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edoomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat are larger than life, while \"Perhaps We're a Storm\" charges headlong into the unknown.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAll of these songs - most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact - mark themselves\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimmediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson's ever-expanding songbook, seekers and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eanthems alike. 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His songs, to borrow a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ephrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ememory. Baby Man changed that - he disallowed himself from referring to material he'd\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebeen working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson's skill as a singer-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esongwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBaby Man's closeness to Johnson's heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument it's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eminimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efull band effort. \"That session was over,\" he explains, \"but there was way more to explore. I\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eliked the immediacy of it, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBats record.\" Within weeks, he was back in a studio, this time with his band - David Dawda\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(bass), Josh Mease (guitars, synth), Frank LoCrasto (piano, synth), and Kosta Galanopoulos\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(drums) - with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emost in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill, it's not hard to understand why:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esimply put, this band smokes.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eProducing the initial recording sessions in Washington's Bear Creek Studios, Johnson set out\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto capture \"the sound of this band I constantly marvel at, the feeling of being in a room with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emusicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.\" They laid most of it down on the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efloor - no click tracks, no comped vocals, and minimal overdubs, with frequent collaborator\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill's final mix. \"It's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehow we do things with my other band, Bonny Light Horseman, and I was curious to see how\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eit would work with Fruit Bats,\" Johnson notes. \"It's both a very personal record, and my most\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecollaborative to date.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIt's also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009's The Ruminant Band, and in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eparing back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song, the psychedelic,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etechnicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esublime as the band gels around Johnson's hazy croon on \"That Goddamn Sun,\" stretching out\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebetween ecstatic romance and melancholia, \"Think Aboutcha\" occupies the blissful-but-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edoomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat are larger than life, while \"Perhaps We're a Storm\" charges headlong into the unknown.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAll of these songs - most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact - mark themselves\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimmediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson's ever-expanding songbook, seekers and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eanthems alike. It's the most daunting peak he's scaled yet, musically or lyrically: a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eswashbuckling set of full-band jammers couldn't be more honest and open-hearted about his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehopes and anxieties, his dreams and fa\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-musictabs\" class=\"ui-tabs ui-corner-all ui-widget ui-widget-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul role=\"tablist\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav ui-corner-all ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ui-widget-header\"\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"tab\" class=\"ui-tabs-tab ui-corner-top ui-state-default ui-tab ui-tabs-active ui-state-active\" aria-controls=\"mt-1\" aria-labelledby=\"MusicTracks\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"true\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracks:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mt-1\" aria-labelledby=\"MusicTracks\" role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"ui-tabs-panel ui-corner-bottom ui-widget-content\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-jukebox\" class=\"tracksonly\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-playlist tracksonly\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e The Saddest Part of the Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e All Wounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e Think Aboutcha\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e That Goddamn Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e Silverfish in the Sink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e Wild Pony Tower Moment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e Fishin' for a Vision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e Perhaps We're a Storm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e Hummingbird Sage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e The Landfill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Fruit Bats","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45923072344262,"sku":"PDU5UC-86EG-R7","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/8085\/0374\/files\/fruit-bats-the-landfill_cw6mq.jpg?v=1780880233"},{"product_id":"fruit-bats-mouthfuls-mint-green-vinyl-vinyl","title":"Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls (MINT GREEN VINYL) [Vinyl]","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"redeye-blurb\"\u003eAround the making of Mouthfuls, Fruit Bats had coalesced into a duo with Gillian Lisee and myself. 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