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Fruit Bats Is An American Indie-Rock Band Formed In 1997 In Chicago Illinois. The Group Has Had Many Personnel Changes But Revolves Around Songwriter Eric D. Johnson. Their Albums Include Echolocation 2001 Mouthfuls 2003 Spelled In Bones 2005 The Ruminant Band 2009 Tripper 2011 And Absolute Loser 2016 . In 2009 Johnson Also Joined The Shins. Originally Part Of Short-Lived Chicago Group I Rowboat Johnson And Two Of His Fellow Rowboat Members Guitarist Dan Strack And Drummer Brian Belval Created Fruit Bats As A Side-Project. When I Rowboat Split Up Fruit Bats Became Johnson's Main Focus. Spurred On By Califone/Perishable Records Honchos Tim Rutili And Ben Massarella The Group Recorded Their First Album Echolocation Released In 2001. After Tours With Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Modest Mouse And The Shins Fruit Bats Signed With Sub Pop In Late Summer 2002 Recording Their Second Album 2003's Mouthfuls Which Included New Bandmate Gillian Lisee. After Relocating To Seattle The Group Released Their Third Album Spelled In Bones In 2005. Afterward Eric D. Johnson Played With The Shins And Vetiver. In 2008 The Fruit Bats Began Working Together Again With Revised Membership Of Johnson Christopher Sherman Ron Lewis Graeme Gibson And Sam Wagster. In 2009 They Released The Ruminant Band And In 2011 Came Tripper. In November 2013 Eric D. Johnson Announced He Would Be Dissolving Fruit Bats. That Month They Played What Was To Be Their Farewell Show At A Sold Out Aladdin Theatre In Portland OR. The Following Year Johnson Released An Album Under The Name EDJ. Reforming In 2015 Fruit Bats Released Their Sixth Official Full-Length LP Absolute Loser In 2016 Via Newly Formed Los Angeles-Based Label Easy Sound. Fruit Bats Signed To North Carolina-Based Independent Label Merge Records In 2018. Also In 2018 Johnson Formed The Folk Group Bonny Light Horseman With Josh Kaufman And Anais Mitchell. In 2019 Fruit Bats’ Merge Debut "Gold Past Life" Was Released. Fruit Bats’ 2020 Album The Pet Parade Was Produced By Johnson's Bonny Light Horseman Bandmate Josh Kaufman. In 2021 Fruit Bats Released A Full-Album Cover Of Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 Record Siamese Dream. The Fruit Bats’ Double-Disc 20-Year Career Retrospective "Sometimes A Cloud Is Just A Cloud Slow Growers Sleeper Hits And Lost Songs" Was Released In 2022. read less