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Fruit Bats celebrate the 15th anniversary of their acclaimed 2009 album The Ruminant Band with a new, limited-edition pink vinyl pressing!Over the course of the band's prior three records, 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 InchHobo GirlInch and the Fleetwood Mac-esque shimmy of the title track to the propulsive yet spacious '70s country-rock jam InchTegucigalpaInch and the parlor piano soft-shoe of InchFlamingo,Inch The Ruminant Band makes good on Johnson's recent message board promise InchWe are going to choogle for you.Inch 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. Album Tracks 1. Primitive Man 2. The Ruminant Band 3. Tegucigalpa 4. Beautiful Morning Light 5. The Hobo Girl 6. Being on Our Own 7. My Unusual Friend 8. Singing Joy to the World 9. The Blessed Breeze 10. Feather Bed 11. Flamingo
