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| List Price: | $13.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Perishable | | Release Date: | September 17, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 86,839th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: the old black hole
- Track 2: glass in your feet
- Track 3: buffalo & deer
- Track 4: need it just a little
- Track 5: black bells
- Track 6: strange little neck of the woods
- Track 7: echolocation stomp
- Track 8: coal age
- Track 9: filthy water
- Track 10: a dodo egg
- Track 11: dragon ships
- Track 12: blue parachute
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
Echolocation is the debut album from Fruit Bats. Imaginary pop hits about the unsettling nature of the great outdoors, murderous fireflies and vengeful pigeons. Imagine Eno and Elton John wrecking a campfire sing-along. Timeless sounds finding the calm in absurdity. Echolocation creates a world where gentle harmonies and subtle guitars frame lines like "arms ripped off by shooting stars". Mandolin and marimbas lead into a chorus where “ The light refracts through the glass in your feet". Dirty country fiddles bend into synthesizer lines and icebergs into garlic fields. Where perfect falsetto pop mixes with images of urban writer’s block and Vikings high on mushrooms all in the same song. It’s sexual, space age country music about seeing the beauty in natural disaster. It makes perfect sense. It shouldn’t but it does. Songwriter/ Fruit Bats mastermind Eric Johnson has worked as a tour guide in a model home, adventure footwear salesman, pizza delivery driver/ assistant manager and spent the last few years as a banjo teacher at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. He also plays guitar, casio and banjo in Califone. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)
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Ansel Adams, administered aurally by Tyree Hilkert (Berkeley, CA)  5 Stars
May 07, 2009
I had to buy this album after watching the KQED documentary "Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America." A lot of it is in the soundtrack. Gorgeous archival footage of the national parks by the man who helped save them by filming them for the Sierra Club. Worth renting or buying the DVD:
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Here's the amazon link for it:
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
What does it sound like? Like dropping acid in the middle of nowhere. Intimate acoustic folk music melting into a vast eno-esque sonic landscape, with body rushes of electric guitar. Awesome awesome awesome.
Like "Fat Old Sun" on Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother
Or "Sufficiently Breathless" by Captain Beyond
Sufficiently Breathless
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Not their Best by R. Mahieu (Seattle, WA)  2 Stars
July 21, 2008
The Fruit Bats are definitely a talented, alt-country-pop band that deserve to be mentioned alongside The Shins, Band of Horses, etc. This debut album, however, is not indicative of their full potential. I had to give this 2 stars, simply because everyone else is full on raving about what a classic album this is. It actually is rather boring unless you want to hear lo-fi vocals and a guitar strumming the same chords on every song. Some slide guitar mixed in with harmonizing vocals save a few songs, but I have to say this is no classic. Don't listen to the guy's review who was listening while drinking and driving or the other one who wishes he was camping in 2002 all over again. Try out Mouthfuls or Spelled in Bones, or both, and then come back to this one if you LOVE both of those albums. These 3 albums are probably going to be the entire Fruit Bats catalogue, as the main man here has joined The Shins. A likely progression and natural move. Love(d) the Fruit Bats, didn't love this album.
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Quiet Vacation by R. Colton (Salt Lake City, UT United States) 5 Stars
February 18, 2005
It's that spontaneous trip to the cabin. Sitting by the lake, wrapped in gentle mountain weather. No one else around but those few close friends. Watching deer graze nearby. Every star is exposed. Skinny-dipping in the lake. Crickets whispering to each other. Your marshmellow just fell in the fire.
Heavenly and delectable. For the escapist in all of us.
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New yet Old Thoughtful and relaxing by Grant Merker (Raleigh, NC United States) 5 Stars
June 14, 2003
I play this CD when I want to let my mind wonder thinking about the Falls of the Neuse river flowing slowly to the ocean, when I'm relaxing over a beer, or just looking to escape from a a hectic day. Thanks for the music Eric. You're quite a talent!
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soothing by S. Smith 5 Stars
April 19, 2003
This album reminds of the very best of a Midwestern summer: the bugs at night, a cloudless sky, bike rides in the country. I am still amazed that people say there is "no good music" out there. The problem I have encountered is that it is hidden away in the musical underground, a place where, I suppose, almost everything good about this country hides anymore.
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| Mouthfuls
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| Spelled in Bones
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Here's an awesome album for floating around back country roads in an old Volvo station wagon. This is folk-based pop music that's meditative, fun, and deliriously repetitive. If you've never heard the Fruit Bats, imagine a less ambitious version of the Shins, a well-worn copy of American Beauty replacing Seventeen Seconds on the turntable, and you're pretty close. If you're a devotee, you should know that Gillian Lisee is not on this record. In her stead we have Dan Strack, who played with...
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