Fruit Bats - "Pet Parade" Standard - Black Vinyl label_Oh Boy Records recorded at Albert Studios in

recorded at Albert Studios in Sydney

with most of the new tracks being vocal lead

Coming off the success of their darkly cinematic third record III

Whether you're simply sightseeing

and they're right enough

Fruit Bats - "Pet Parade" Standard - Black Vinyl label_Oh Boy Records recorded at Albert Studios in"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