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Spelled in Bones (Dig)
Fruit Bats
Spelled in Bones (Dig)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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Here's an awesome album for floating around back country roads in an old Volvo station wagon. This is folk-based pop music that's meditative, fun, and deliriously repetitive. If you've never heard the Fruit Bats, imagine a...  more »

     
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All Artists: Fruit Bats
Title: Spelled in Bones (Dig)
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: 7/26/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 098787065428

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Here's an awesome album for floating around back country roads in an old Volvo station wagon. This is folk-based pop music that's meditative, fun, and deliriously repetitive. 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. If you're a devotee, you should know that Gillian Lisee is not on this record. In her stead we have Dan Strack, who played with principal singer-songwriter Eric Johnson in the poorly named but excellent band I, Rowboat. 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. "Earthquake of '73," "Lives of Crims" and "Born in the ?70s" ? these are big, beautiful, elegiac songs. Stick ?em in a popular romantic comedy and watch this band become household names. ?Mike McGonigal

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CD Reviews

The more I listen, the more I want to listen
Henry W. Kastler | Chicago, IL USA | 09/25/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Good feeling, catchy melodies and harmonies with folky, psychedelic lyrics. Lots of acoustic guitar, always a plus. But there are a lot of different instruments on this record. The sum is greater than the parts. The album sounds familiar and new at the same time. It really is a new kind of pop music.



I haven't heard either the Shins or Califone, so I'll compare Fruit Bats to the Beatles, Kinks, Velvet Underground, maybe even early, pre-ambient Brian Eno. It's great music!"
Sweet and full of hope
TRACY O'BRIEN | Seattle, WA | 10/31/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD manufactures feelings reminiscent of my youth. Its honesty reminds me of my teen years, full of curiosity, in my room listening to The Smiths or The Damned. There is something more striking about this CD too, as if they know exactly what and where we end up. I hum Born in the '70s during meetings, putting a sweet spring in my step."
Good to the last drop
J. LEFAN | 09/11/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)

"shades of the shins and belle and sebastian, wrapped in college radio fresh seal packaging. i found several tracks overly forlorn, but overall quite catchy. starts and finishes very strong, with a rollercoaster ride of content, theme, and tempo throughout. GREAT ALBUM!"