Ruminant Band - Fruit Bats
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Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: Eric Johnson returns to the indie rock band for its fourth album after having worked with The Shins and Vetiver.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The fourth and best-by-a-mile folk-rock album from sometime Shin Eric Johnson and his cud-chewing sidemen is a message to the freak-folk from "a broke-legged paint in a herd full of unicorns."
  2. Where a lot of new bands drop the ball is not quite capturing the state of bliss that made so many of those hippue classics what they were. But that's not a problem on The Ruminant Band. [Sep 2009, p.104]
  3. This is one made like they used to make 'em--and it's utterly gorgeous to boot.
  4. 60
    Much of The Ruminant Band comes sunny side up. [Sep 2009, p.90]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. HelloH.
    8
    This is definitely the best Fruit Bats record thus far. I have always thought they had some great tunes, but now I feel like it's full-blown.
  2. RyanS.
    8
    Another good one from Fruit Bats.