Tripper is the fifth full-length album by indie rock band Fruit Bats. The album was released August 2, 2011 on Sub Pop Records. A 1980s-esque music video for the song "You're Too Weird" preceded the release of the album. Studio album by. Fruit Bats. Fruit Bats chronology. The Ruminant Band (2009). Absolute Loser (2016).

Fruit Bats is an American rock band formed in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Noted as an early entrant into the folk-rock boom of the early 2000s, the group has had many personnel changes but revolves around singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson. In 2000, Eric D. Johnson was an instructor at The Old Town School of Folk Music, led his own space-rock band called I Rowboat, and was a guitarist in various groups, including Califone and The Shins.

Studio album by Fruit Bats. August 2, 2011 (2011-08-02). Indie rock, indie pop, indie folk, soft rock. Tripper is the fifth full-length album by indie rock band Fruit Bats. Tangie and Ray. Shivering Fawn.

The Ruminant Band sounded like a classic rock album, with its dueling Allman Brothers guitar solos and full-band harmonies. Tripper, the Fruit Bats’ 2011 follow-up, is more pared down, with bandleader Eric Johnson doing most of the legwork himself. Atmospheric washes of sound replace the sunny, straightforward hooks. On songs like The Fen, instruments replace vocals entirely, sounding more like a clip from an orchestral movie soundtrack than the work of a rock band.

Tripper, Fruit Bats‘ main man Eric D. Johnson’s fifth album in just over a decade under that moniker, is nothing short of the successes set forth by 2009’s sunny The Ruminant Band or 2001’s amiable debut, Echolocation

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You can almost hear the bronchial cough of dogs echoing around a vista of deserted gas stations, hot asphalt and dustbowl scrub on this, Fruit Bats’ fifth album – and their most affecting yet. Considerably more introspective than 2009’s Ruminant Band long-player, this is to all intents and purposes a solo affair by frontman Eric D. Johnson, who has based the entire album on a bus journey he made to South Dakota a decade ago, alongside a cantankerous hobo.