The Pet Parade Fruit Bats SKU: 20.00 21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Released Date: 7th May 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code 1LP Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code1LP Includes Download CodeClear The Pet Parade quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “The Pet Parade,” the title track to Fruit Bats’ newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson’s beloved indie folk-rock project. The six-and-a-half-minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence. While many of the songs on The Pet Parade were actually written before the pandemic, it’s impossible to disassociate the record from the times. As an example, producer Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir, The National, and Bonny Light Horseman, in which he plays with Johnson and Anaïs Mitchell) was brought in for his deep emotional touch and bandleading abilities. However, Johnson, Kaufman, and the other musicians on The Pet Parade drummers Joe Russo and Matt Barrick (The Walkmen, Fleet Foxes), singer-songwriter Johanna Samuels, pianist Thomas Bartlett (Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens), and fiddler Jim Becker (Califone, Iron & Wine) were forced to self-record their parts in bedrooms and home studios across America. Still, says Johnson, “The songs have enough intimacy that it doesn’t sound like it was made a million miles away.” Such tension and turmoil also impacted the lyrics of The Pet Parade. While “Cub Pilot” and “Here For Now, For You” began as more traditional love songs from a personal “I” to a specific “you” Johnson quickly realized that these songs needed to comfort broader audiences, changing the words to a more inclusive “we” and “us.” So too in “The Balcony,” a song ostensibly about a particular space in his grandmother’s apartment, but one that evolved into a metaphor on patience. At times upbeat and reassuring (“Eagles Below Us”) and at times quietly contemplative (“On the Avalon Stairs”), The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit Bats has consistently earned enough small victories to carve out a career in a notoriously fickle scene. And Johnson himself who has played in The Shins, composed film scores, gone solo and returned back to the moniker that started it all, and most recently, earned two GRAMMY® nominations with Bonny Light Horseman doesn’t take this long route of life’s pet parade for granted. “I’m still really excited to make records,” he says. “Lucky and happy and maybe happier that things went slower for me. I’m savoring it a lot more.” Artist Fruit Bats Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code , 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Pet Parade Cub Pilot Discovering The Balcony Here For Now, For You On the Avalon Stairs Eagles Below Us Holy Rose All in One Go Gullwing Doors Complete Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Fruit Bats View Product Quick View Fruit Bats A River Running to Your Heart Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th April 2023 £24.00 Select options Fruit Bats A River Running to Your Heart £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th April 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Fruit Bats Tripper (DELUXE REISSUE, WHITE VINYL) Rock And Pop | Jealous Butcher | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released 2nd December 2022 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fruit Bats Tripper (DELUXE REISSUE, WHITE VINYL) £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jealous Butcher SKU: LPJBR220X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7" Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fruit Bats Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001 – 2021) Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 28th January 2022 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fruit Bats Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001 – 2021) £31.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG773LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 28th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fruit Bats Gold Past Life Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes 7", Includes Download Code Released 21st June 2019 £20.00 - 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