Fruit Bats
Tripper
Sub Pop
2011
Rating: 7 cold, damp caverns out of 10
When I listen to Fruit Bats I imagine some variation of driving through the deserts of the western United States in a convertible VW Bug somewhere around the year 1972. These albums are almost like time travel to me, they sound dated and timeless at the same time. There just aren't many people who make this brand of breezy, slightly glam folk rock these days - David Vandervelde, Bart Davenport, maybe the Shins immediately come to mind - but it seems like everyone and their brother was on this tip a few decades back.Eric Johnson, the man behind the band, seems like the sort of guy who would have fit right in as a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers or the Byrds, and this shines through in his tunes. This album, "Tripper" is great, but not terribly different from anything else he has put out. I'm still quite partial to his second record "Mouthfuls" and listen to it from time to time, and there is no reason this new disc can't work it's way into the rotation as well.
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