Fruit Bats - The Pet Parade Release:The Pet Parade Merge Records with the Academy of Ancient

with the Academy of Ancient Music

The Choir of Gonville & Caius College

Reflection on the thousands of years of the Jewish song tradition and the effort to develop a national identity marked the genesis of music in the new state of Israel

- For this the band relies on proven connections: the album was mixed by Michelle Darkness (End Of Green) at Darkland Studios

Fruit Bats - The Pet Parade Release:The Pet Parade Merge Records with the Academy of Ancient"The Pet Parade," the title track to Fruit Bats' ninth album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson's beloved indie folk rock project. The six and a half minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade