Fruit Bats | The Landfill | Vinyl LP - Pink Splatter in Clear

The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you\u2019ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you\u2019ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots, parks, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson\u2019s heart. Over the course of his now 25-year career under the Fruit Bats moniker, most of Eric D. Johnson\u2019s output has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs, to borrow a phrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that \u2014 he disallowed himself from referring to material he\u2019d been working on before laying the album down, utilizing .