NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Eric Johnson of the band Fruit Bats about their album "The Landfill," and how those man-made mountains may change your perspective.

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Eric D. Johnson has a very practical reason why he started recording his music in 1997 under the name Fruit Bats and has (mostly) kept it ever since. "I have an extremely ordinary name, for one thing.

Hello from in here to all you out there. Fruit Bats’ eighth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for ...

The Fruit Bats have shared a new song, “Waking Up in Los Angeles,” a charmingly sleepy track with an infectious, harmony-laden hook. “This is a sad song masquerading as a happy one,” Eric D Johnson ...

Initiated by the suggestion of Merge’s co-found Mac McCaughn, TORRES (aka Mackenzie Scott) and Fruit Bats (aka Eric D. Johnson) have announced a new collaborative EP, A Decoration, and shared its ...

The Fruit Bats have been around since the late ’90s, centered around lead singer-songwriter and only permanent member of the band Eric D. Johnson. On April 29, Fruit Bats performed in Thalia Hall, ...

Trying to pin down exactly what kind of band Fruit Bats is can be a little tricky — and that’s part of the appeal.

After years living on the West Coast, Eric D. Johnson always has his home of Chicago in the back of his mind. The solo mastermind behind Fruit Bats, Johnson’s family hails from the North Side and he ...

FRUIT BATS: (Singing) Lookin' down from the landfill, I can see the city lights a-shimmerin'. And it's like a holy vision of what could be and couldn't be and could have been. NADWORNY: That is the ...