Fruit Bats - "Pet Parade" Standard - Black Vinyl label_Oh Boy Records From the resplendent "Way It

From the resplendent "Way It Goes

the album weds rich imagery and sweeping sounds in manners that make the two inseparable

Love+Fear are both lush

Whether you're simply sightseeing

The album contains "Boris the Spider"

Fruit Bats - "Pet Parade" Standard - Black Vinyl label_Oh Boy Records From the resplendent "Way It"The Pet Parade," the title track to Fruit Bats' ninth 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