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Call them love songs dedicated to Ma Nature, primal lullabies, folk-pop gems (with an increasing emphasis on pop).

Produced by Brian Deck, Mouthfuls is a collection of beautiful, heart-felt music in an age that resists beautiful, heart-felt music. Fruit Bats have toured with Modest Mouse, The Shins and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, and they’ve done a handful of headlining tours as well. The more observant amongst you might recognize Eric from his stint playing guitar and banjo with near-legendary folk weirdoes Califone, or as live multi-instrumentalist with Ugly Casanova and Sally Timms. Eric sings most of the leads, everybody else sings with him. The line-up is a bit nebulous, but revolves around Eric Johnson (guitars, keys, songwriting).

Updated artwork is a reproduction of one of the hand painted covers from the original 2013 pressing!įruit Bats are from Chicago, Illinois.

Brand new pressing on limited edition transparent blue vinyl!.

A good call, because the song is probably Fruit Bats’ most popular track to date. Johnson has said that it was a last-minute addition to the album, and, when he couldn’t think of anything else to add, he simply repeated the first verse over and over. The favorite track, though, is the closer, “When U Love Somebody.” A sing-along starter at shows, the simple love song features a repetitive chorus and a steady, catchy beat. Later, the harmonies at the tail end of “The Little Acorn” could easily be plopped into a Beatles track, while the banjo and lyrics of “Seaweed”-“Love is like a spaceship, burnin’ up when it hits the atmosphere”-craft a melancholy vibe. A thoughtful mix of traditional guitar and digitized extras, it’s a solid opener. Mouthfuls starts with the acoustic strums and zen lyrics of “Rainbow Sign”-“Bring on the rain tell the lord make it so make it so/ Bring on the wind let it blow, let it blow, let it blow/Waitin’ for the rainbow sign”-before building with some well-placed vibraphone and sprinklings of drum machine. It was a watershed moment that sent me off onto a whole new path.” I was shocked and beside myself with joy. “But finally in a moment of desperation I called them and they signed us pretty quickly. “I think it must have been another few months or something before I actually called the label because I was shy as hell,” says Johnson.

After being pushed by acts including Modest Mouse, Johnson eventually gave Sub Pop a call. In fact, it took encouragement from friends for the songwriter to even pursue publishing his material. Nowadays, clap ‘n’ stomp tunes have broken into the Top 40, but back when Johnson was gathering material for Mouthfuls, his folky riffs weren’t exactly trendy. His on-again, off-again relationship with his then-girlfriend inspired a bulk of the tracks on the record (a handful of which they co-wrote), which are mostly bittersweet love songs that Johnson describes as a “mini cocaine-free version of Rumours.” But even though it’s been 10 years since Mouthfuls’ release on Sub Pop, it still remains a fan favorite, perhaps why it’s being re-released via Jealous Butcher Records. And no record captures his intimate, twangy style better than Mouthfuls, the second release from Johnson’s solo moniker, Fruit Bats.Īround the time of Mouthfuls’ development, Johnson was working as a guitarist for various groups including Califone and The Shins. Back before coffee-shop quirk had broken into the mainstream, Eric Johnson’s delicate melodies felt more back-porch cool than on trend.