Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) RHI645871.1

Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) RHI645871.1Eric D. Johnson, the creative force behind Fruit Bats, doesn't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. But with the 20th anniversary of his first Fruit Bats release (2001's Echolocation) on his mind, it seemed as good a time as any to take stock of his work and he's doing so in the form of Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001 2021), a two disc collection that tracks the history of Fruit Bats

and some of them are based on post-Marcusian ideas sophisticated enough to get the average post-Marcusian thinking hard

and the futuristic visions they were tapping into

This live set was recorded in the summer of 2020 in Dublin's historic Kilmainham Gaol

2 Kleopatra

Bobby Timmons

London’s Calling

The Four Tops’ Second Album

even while it's songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms they are known for

2 Actress

Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s musical empire was founded on Ska

The wandering spirit is crystallized in "I Must Belong Somewhere" a song which was already a staple of live shows by the end of the 2005

Charlie Hustle