New Fruit Bats - "The Ruminant Band" (Stereogum Premiere)

Being the newest full-time member of the Shins is enough to keep anyone's hands full, but Eric D. Johnson has no intention of pausing the Fruit Bats project, his Sub Pop band that will release its fourth full-length this summer. The collection's title track "The Ruminant Band" strums along with Bats' familiar major chords and AM golden lope, settling into a section of the '70s that matches Fleetwood Mac vocal harmonies with Dickey Betts-styled guitar lines straight from an Allman Bros jam (befor...

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