Fruit Bats turn The Landfill into a beautiful place to leave old ghosts

Fruit Bats’ The Landfill arrives on 12 June via Merge, and the title already does what good indie-folk titles should do: it makes something ordinary feel emotionally suspicious. A landfill is where things are thrown away, buried, forgotten or left to become part of the landscape. That is fertile territory for Eric D. Johnson, whose best Fruit Bats songs have always carried a soft ache beneath the melody. The project’s long-running charm lies in how it can make folk-rock feel light on its feet without losing emotional gravity. The Landfill sounds like a record built for listeners who still believe a gentle song can carry serious debris. In a release week crowded with electronic experimentation and big pop statements, Fruit Bats offer something quieter but durable: songs that know memory is messy, beautiful and not always recyclable.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/new-album-releases/