Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) Sakamoto stacked with references to the

stacked with references to the state of hip-hop circa the early '90s

The sharp songwriting and musicianship is all anchored in Bright Eyes' singular ability to flip deep intimacy into something universal

all of which is blended with a high-octane swell of grind/powerviolence riffs

cultural touchstones of the 2010's and 2020's

Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) Sakamoto stacked with references to theEric 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