Fruit Bats - Spelled In Bones

 NEW VINYL LP ON SUBPOP 2005.

Eric Johnson has been making experimental and pop-inflected folk-rock with increasing compositional and thematic complexity since Califone/Perishable Records founders Tim Rutili and Ben Massarella prompted him to explore his craft in the mid-‘90s. Johnson’s recordings, enriched by contributions from an ever-revolving cast of Chicagoan characters (the current lineup includes I Rowboat’s Dan Strack and percussionist John Byce) used a melancholy hand to touch on love and the human experience on 2001’s Perishable debut, Echolocation, and 2003’s Sub Pop-released Mouthfuls. Around 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.”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_Bats_%28band%29

Tracklist

LIVES OF CRIME     
SILENT LIFE     
TV WAVES     
CANYON GIRL     
BORN IN THE '70S     
LEGS OF BEES     
THE EARTHQUAKE OF '73     
TRAVELER'S SONG     
THE WIND THAT BLEW MY HEART AWAY     
SPELLED IN BONES     
EVERY DAY THAT WE WAKE UP IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY