New Album Releases: THE PET PARADE (Fruit Bats)

BUY NOW FROM AMAZON

Artist:
Fruit Bats

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Time:
44:16

Record Label:
Merge Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
March 5, 2021



"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Purchasing Links

---

Buy the CD from Amazon  •

---

Buy the MP3 from Amazon  •

---

Buy the Vinyl from Amazon  •

---

Buy the Album from iTunes •

---

Product Description: "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 emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence. 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.

TRACK LIST:

---

1 . The Pet Parade (6:42)

2 . Cub Pilot (3:32)

3 . Discovering (4:35)

4 . The Balcony (4:08)

5 . Here For Now, For You (2:52)

6 . On the Avalon Stairs (3:11)

7 . Eagles Below Us (3:36)

8 . Holy Rose (4:52)

9 . All in One Go (3:13)

10 . Gullwing Doors (4:35)

11 . Complete (3:01)

Entertainment Factor

---

     OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:

• New Album Releases: DONIZETTI - IL PARIA (Misha Kiria / Albina Shagimuratova / Mark Elder / Britten Sinfonia)
• New Album Releases: SINCERELY, E (Elizabeth & The Catapult)
• New Album Releases: POSTER GIRL (Zara Larsson)
• New Album Releases: HEAVEN AND HOLY (Painted Shrines)
• New Album Releases: SHOW ME HOW YOU DISAPPEAR (Ian Sweet)
• New Album Releases: EAU DE BONJOURNO (Bernice)
• New Album Releases: REFLECTIONS VOL. 1 (BUMBLE BEE CROWN KING) - Woods
• New Album Releases: ROAD TO THE SUN (Pat Metheny, Jason Vieaux & Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)
• New Album Releases: PEACEMEAL (Ron Gallo) - Alternative
• New Album Releases: CEDARS (Field Works) - Alternative
• New Album Releases: AS DAYS GET DARK (Arab Strap)
• New Album Releases: START WALKIN' 1965-1976 (Nancy Sinatra)
• New Album Releases: TONE POEM (Charles Lloyd & The Marvels) - Jazz
• New Album Releases: DIES OCCIDENDUM (DJ Muggs) - Rap
• New Album Releases: ANTONIO SALIERI - ARMIDA (Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques)
• New Album Releases: SUITCASE MAN (Mike Dillon & The Bad Decisions) - Jazz
• New Album Releases: NOTES WITH ATTACHMENTS (Pino Palladino & Blake Mills)
• New Album Releases: BACH - WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER (Piotr Anderszewski)
• New Album Releases: PICK A DAY TO DIE (Sunburned Hand of the Man) - Rock
• New Album Releases: FREEDOM FABLES (Nubiyan Twist)
• New Album Releases: MOONLIT AND DEVIOUS (Allie Crow Buckley)
• New Album Releases: RACHMANINOFF - SYMPHONY No. 1 & SYMPHONIC DANCES (The Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
• New Album Releases: OBVIOUSLY (Lake Street Dive) - Alternative
• New Album Releases: BABY, I'M HOLLYWOOD (Judith Hill) - R&B
• New Album Releases: THE MOON AND STARS - PRESCRIPTIONS FOR DREAMERS (Valerie June)
• New Album Releases: BEETHOVEN - SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck)