Sub Pop   Fruit Bats Tripper    • 10224   • 10225   • 10223   •
9624  Release Date August 1, 2011  Catalog No SP935  Formats LP,
CD, and MP3  With the 2001 release of the Fruit Bats’ debut
album, Echolocation, Eric D. Johnson embarked on a career in
music that has, to date, included ten years with the Fruit Bats,
sideman duties for bands including Califone, Vetiver and The
Shins, and more recently, soundtrack work for films like
Ceremony and the soon-to-be-released Paul Rudd comedy Our Idiot
Brother. Tripper, the new and fifth Fruit Bats full-length, was
recorded at WACS Studio in Los Angeles with Thom Monahan, best
known as producer for the last four Vetiver albums, Devendra
Banhart’s Cripple Crow, and the Pernice Brothers. For the first
week of recording, Johnson brought in a full band—Sam Wagster,
Ron Lewis and Graeme Gibson—to capture some of the live
excitement of the previous Fruit Bats album, 2009’s The Ruminant
Band. However, having recently worked alone on soundtracks for
an extended period, Johnson