Thursday, March 11, 2010

SASQUATCH! Music: Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band



It's got that old '70s rock band feel, with a steady beat, some harmonies and the classic electric guitar sounds. If you get through the somewhat lengthy intro on this track it turns into a pretty awesome song. A lot of their tunes are a little folkier, but they seem to pull both off well.

The softer stuff has been well received; NPR notes that it "earned the folk-rock band favorable comparisons to Modest Mouse and The Shins."

And surprise(!): Eric Johnson, the band's leader, has been playing guitar with The Shins since 2007. Although Fruit Bats started with their sound in 1999.

They've got a ton of great songs on their latest album, including Tegucigalpa.

A song called When you love Somebody was placed in the movie Youth in Revolt, and Starbucks picked the tune Primitive Man as a Pick of the Week (and no, I have no idea what the intro is about in that video).

Tour schedule at myspace.

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