Fruit Bats

Fruit Bats “Baby Man”

September 5, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0

A stripped-down, soul-baring indie folk journey, minimalist in sound, maximal in emotion. Nobody could accuse Eric D Johnson (aka Fruit Bats) of resting on his laurels or being lazy. This is his fourth album using the […]

Fruit Bats “Let You People Down” – wrestling with my angst

August 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

I think we can just waffle along a bit and then let you, favoured reader, hit the play button. Look – Eric D. Johnson is just one of our favourite Americana artists – an endless collaborator, […]

Something for the weekend: Fruit Bats “Creature from the Wild”

July 25, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new song from the upcoming next album from Fruit Bats. In ‘Creature From The Wild’ singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson muses […]

Fruit Bats to release new album “Baby Man”

June 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

Fruit Bats has announced the forthcoming release of the new album “Baby Man” on 12th September 2025 via Merge Records. “Baby Man” is the follow-up to 2023’s release “A River Running to Your Heart” (Merge). Johnson […]

I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]