Fruit Bats - The Pet ParadeThe Pet Parade, the title track to Fruit Bats newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnsons 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

It is a timeless body of work with an immortal resonance exemplified by smashes such as Let's Go Crazy

åÊPhasesåÊacts as a deep-dive for longtime fans

both of which are making their vinyl debut

Tempest argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate

They successfully merged lyrics

Just Another Diamond Day is

Art of Noise

with artists including Jorge Ben

Further accenting the devoted spirit of this collection is the inclusion of Bonnie's take on Prince's 'The Cross'

finding connections

Nau‰۪s ever-present sense of humor

full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements