Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Vinyl LP) Julie Byrne They rip and create space

They rip and create space and fill it up with what seems like reckless abandon

like Big Star’s Third / Sister Lovers and Lou Reed’s Berlin

percussion) and in studio by Destroyer collaborator Ted Bois (keys)

Curating and ordering the tracks for a Mr Bongo Record Club is always special

The Cybermen - Cybernetic Surgery

Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Vinyl LP) Julie Byrne They rip and create spaceBaby Man, the new album by Fruit Bats, is like nothing else in Grammy nominated songwriter Eric D. Johnsons catalogue. Little in the arc of his career including Fruit Bats evolution from home recording project to rollicking roadshow, his solo output, and his work with Bonny Light Horseman points the way to this album, in which his only accompaniment, aside from the occasional blush of synthesizer, is a guitar, banjo, or piano. Save for producer Thom