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You can almost hear the bronchial cough of dogs echoing around a vista of deserted gas stations, hot asphalt and dustbowl scrub on this, Fruit Bats’ fifth album â€" and their most affecting yet.
Considerably more introspective than 2009’s Ruminant Band long-player, this is to all intents and purposes a solo affair by frontman Eric D. Johnson, who has based the entire album on a bus journey he made to South Dakota a decade ago, alongside a cantankerous hobo.
Characters like Tony the Tripper, the aforementioned itinerant, are present throughout the album with Johnson playing the sympathetic narrator. Other rambling capitalist refuseniks...
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