PO: FRUIT BATS "The Ruminant Band" LP, YOUNG ACCUSER "Unsound" 7"
July 27, 2009 
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FRUIT BATS ìThe Ruminant Bandî LP
THE YOUNG ACCUSER ìUnsoundî 7î
I love Sub Pop so much and have found many of my favorite bands through their beloved label. The other day, a friend of mine asked if I was a fan of the Fruit Bats and I had to admit that although I had heard of them, I never really listened to them. They went on to say that knowing my taste that they thought I would love the Fruit Bats. After I finish listening to the Violent Femmes this afternoon, I plan to listen to their older records. Any fans out there?
The Fruit Bats have a new album coming out next week, here is what Subpop has to say. “Over the course of three records, the last two on Sub Pop (2003’s Mouthfuls and 2005’s Spelled in Bones), Eric D. Johnson’s Fruit Bats have looked for ways to file down the cynical edge of modern life and found many. Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation, the Fruit Bats have never shied away from darkness, but more uncommon in this day and age, they’ve refused to shy away from light. With The Ruminant Band, this tradition continues in characteristically rich and involving fashion. From the barn-floor stomp of “The Hobo Girl” and the Fleetwood Mac-esque shimmy of the title track to the propulsive yet spacious ‘70s country-rock jam “Tegucigalpa” and the parlor piano soft-shoe of “Flamingo,” The Ruminant Band makes good on Johnson’s recent message board promise: “We are going to choogle for you.” Though he has spent the handful of years between Fruit Bats records playing with peers as heralded and forward-thinking as Vetiver and The Shins, the songwriting and production on The Ruminant Band mark a further crystallization of Johnson’s own melodic instincts and overall vision over the past near-decade, abetted by brothers-in-arms who know both bluster and restraint.”
The description for the Young Accurser single sounds pretty interesting, Sub Pop writes, “Our old friend Joe Pernice will be publishing his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop in August 2009. In that book , the narrator, who is not Joe, is in a band called The Young Accuser for a short time. After the fictional narrator leaves this fictional band, they record a fictional song and send it to the non-fictional Sub Pop. This is the non-fiction version of that fictional single.”.
We should have vinyl in early next week.
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