mmm... Fruit Bats... allow me to suckle the nectar of thy sweet new tunes. Thou art the joy of my easy listening, open breasted smiling afternoons, playing out your tender harmonies, soft and gay across the room. Eric D. Johnson, you are a total babe. I never really noticed until today, when I read that you will play The Crocodile this August 20, 2009 with Palmer Electric Co. formerly known as Palmer, AK.

For the last hour I have been grooving to your new album on Pitchfork and clicking around this great big internet, trying to understand... just what kind of person makes songs as great as these, and who is his band? (Graeme Gibson, Chris Sherman, Ron Lewis, Sam Wagster) They say you've been with Sub Pop for some time and that you moonlight in The Shins and Vetiver and now you've written a new album and it couldn't be more better-er.

Your new Fruit Bats' album The Ruminant Band, is getting lots of love since it's release last week and you're at the start of a world tour. The new stuff seems to be inspired by hazy misty mornings and half-naked hobo girls, by love and by travel, the light of the moon and oyster pearls. It makes my heart giddy and my imagination reel when I listen to how you feel. Oh, Fruit Bats! Your new songs make me spin like rainbows on pinwheels!

http://www.myspace.com/thefruitbats