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Fruit Bats – Gold Past Life (LP Vinyl)

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Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Eric D. Johnson has been quietly one of indie folk's most consistent songwriters for two decades, carrying Fruit Bats from Chicago's early-aughts scene through Bonnie Prince Billy collaborations and a long tenure with the Shins. His gift has always been finding the warmth inside melancholy, wrapping plainspoken emotional honesty in melodies that feel like they've existed forever.

Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning for Fruit Bats. It's the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014's EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) and hit an emotional peak with 2016's Absolute Loser. They encompassed years of loss, displacement, and the persistent, low-level anxiety of the current political climate. They were written in the wake of friends who left these earthly confines and families that could have been. But these salves, these songs on Gold Past Life, also represent new beginnings-the journeys that await after making it through troubled times. Gold Past Life is about rejecting notions of idealized nostalgia ("Gold Past Life") and the process of grounding oneself in the present, both geographically ("A Lingering Love," "Ocean") and spiritually ("Drawn Away"). With Gold Past Life, Eric Johnson of Fruit B hopes to bring more immediacy to the music and share positivity, hope, and motivation to keep on keepin' on with a wider audience.

Tracklist

Side A

1. The Bottom Of It
2. Gold Past Life
3. Drawn Away
4. Cazadera
5. Ocean
6. Your Dead Grandfather

Side B

1. A Lingering Love
2. Barely Living Room
3. Mandy From Mohawk (Wherever You May Be)
4. Dream Would Breathe
5. Two Babies In Michigan

UPC: 673855067018
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 6.21.19
Format: LP Vinyl