Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Fruit Bats Title: echolocation Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Perishable Original Release Date: 9/17/2001 Release Date: 9/17/2001 Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Americana, Indie & Lo-Fi Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 663849003528 |
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Echolocation is the debut album from Fruit Bats. Imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. Imagine Eno and Elton John wrecking a campfire sing-along. ... more » |
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Album Description Echolocation is the debut album from Fruit Bats. Imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. Imagine Eno and Elton John wrecking a campfire sing-along. Timeless sounds finding the calm in absurdity. Echolocation creates a world where gentle harmonies and subtle guitars frame lines like "arms ripped off by shooting stars". Mandolin and marimbas lead into a chorus where ? The light refracts through the glass in your feet". Dirty country fiddles bend into synthesizer lines and icebergs into garlic fields. Where perfect falsetto pop mixes with images of urban writer?s block and Vikings high on mushrooms all in the same song. It?s sexual, space age country music about seeing the beauty in natural disaster. It makes perfect sense. It shouldn?t but it does. Songwriter/ Fruit Bats mastermind Eric Johnson has worked as a tour guide in a model home, adventure footwear salesman, pizza delivery driver/ assistant manager and spent the last few years as a banjo teacher at Chicago?s Old Town School of Folk Music. He also plays guitar, casio and banjo in Califone. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsQuiet Vacation R. Colton | Salt Lake City, UT United States | 02/18/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "It's that spontaneous trip to the cabin. Sitting by the lake, wrapped in gentle mountain weather. No one else around but those few close friends. Watching deer graze nearby. Every star is exposed. Skinny-dipping in the lake. Crickets whispering to each other. Your marshmellow just fell in the fire. Heavenly and delectable. For the escapist in all of us." Soothing S. Smith | 04/19/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "This album reminds of the very best of a Midwestern summer: the bugs at night, a cloudless sky, bike rides in the country. I am still amazed that people say there is "no good music" out there. The problem I have encountered is that it is hidden away in the musical underground, a place where, I suppose, almost everything good about this country hides anymore." Sparklng, secret universe R. Colton | 11/13/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Fruit Bats (Eric Johnson: songwriter, vocals, banjo, guitars & most other instruments) mix "psychedelic" (hate that word but..) front-porchy folk and fancy harmonies with eclectic rock-influenced instrumentations and surprisingly smart, weird lyrics that take us into another world. The 12 songs happily alternate between down-to-earth and outer space - lyrically, nothing here is melancholy, but there is a tangible sense that the world is very big and the important moments are really, really small. The vocal arrangements seem to come from vaguely recognizable sources in pop, indie rock and folk/country americana but they're deftly delivered in unique and catchy tunes that synthesize the complexities in life and music right now. It's like Johnson's inner life and musical unconscious just laid itself out on a lovely field, staring up into the sky and tapping its toes: you can't help but want to join in, but you're not sure if it's day or night. And are those voices coming from your own head, the stars, or the mosquitoes? Echolocation is accessible music that's also rewarding in its tricky and beautiful revelations. Dreamy from beginning to end!"
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