Fruit Bats - Baby Man (Vinyl LP - 2025 - US - Original)
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Baby Man, the new album by Fruit Bats, is like nothing else in Grammy-nominated songwriterEric D. Johnson's catalog. Little in the arc of his career_including Fruit Bats' evolution fromhome recording project to rollicking roadshow, his solo output, and his work with Bonny LightHorseman_points the way to this album, in which his only accompaniment, aside from theoccasional blush of synthesizer, is a guitar, banjo, or piano. Save for producer Thom Monahan,reuniting with Johnson for the first time since Fruit Bats' 2019 breakthrough Gold Past Life, it'sjust Johnson in the room, meaning that when the turntable's needle meets Baby Man's groove, it'sjust him and the listener, mutually in for a reckoning.Monahan's return to the booth was vital: having mapped the outer limits of Eric D. Johnson'smusical imagination, nobody was better equipped for the deepest trip yet into his soul. BabyMan is an intimate album, but rather than deliver a stripped-down or back-to-basics approachto the Fruit Bats sound, its introspection is rendered at epic scale. "It's minimalist-maximalism,"Johnson says of his and Monahan's approach. "There are fewer tracks on each song_four orfive at most compared to recent albums where there'd maybe be five tracks on a song just forsynths_but this is me at my most hi-fi."What he and Monahan do to striking effect on Baby Man is explore the full power and range ofhis voice. Pushed forward in the mix, Johnson's vocals_a showstopping element of his craft_have new purpose and depth on Baby Man, breathing life into some of the rawest songs he'sever written into being, actively finding the heart in the lyrics sometimes just hours after they'dbeen penned. A text sent to Monahan one morning_"I'm just trying to write a couple moresongs"_later becomes the first line of "Puddle Jumper," a finger-picked heartbreaker whoseonly competition for the crown of Most Emotionally Devastating Fruit Bats Song is the othereight Johnson originals on this album."Stuck in My Head Ag...
Trackliste
A1 LET YOU PEOPLE DOWN
A2 TWO THOUSAND FOUR
A3 STUCK IN MY HEAD AGAIN
A4 BABY MAN
A5 CREATURE FROM THE WILD
A6 PUDDLE JUMPER
A7 FIRST GIRL I LOVED
A8 MOON'S TOO BRIGHT
A9 BUILDING A CATHEDRAL
A10 YEAR OF THE CROW
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