Indie-folk favorites Fruit Bats are gearing up for the discharge of their expansive new full-band album The Landfill, arriving June 12 by way of Merge Data. Forward of the album’s launch, the band has unveiled the reflective new single “That Goddamn Solar,” providing one other glimpse into the emotionally wealthy and sonically immersive mission from Grammy-nominated songwriter Eric D. Johnson.
Johnson, the longtime artistic drive behind Fruit Bats, shared that the tune’s haunting melody truly lived on his telephone as a voice memo for years earlier than lastly discovering its residence throughout a collaborative writing session with bandmates Kosta Galanopoulos and Josh Mease.
“Generally phrases don’t suffice, and a refrain finally ends up with none of them,” Johnson defined. “This ‘ooooh’ melody existed as a voice memo on my telephone for a few years. It got here to me in a big echo-y backstage tiled lavatory someplace after which languished for some time.”
He continued, “The lyrics are about one thing many have written about over time — the ol’ ‘ready for the solar to shine’ story.”
Impressed by Johnson’s Midwestern upbringing, The Landfill makes use of the picture of towering artifical hills of discarded historical past as a metaphor for reminiscence, emotion, and private progress. The album explores themes of consequence, reflection, and renewal, reworking the particles of the previous into the muse for brand new potentialities.
The mission follows 2025’s intimate solo Fruit Bats launch Child Man, however this time Johnson leaned absolutely into collaboration together with his longtime touring band. Recorded with an emphasis on intuition and chemistry over perfection, the classes featured minimal overdubs, no click on tracks, and performances captured largely in actual time. Johnson produced the album himself, whereas longtime collaborator Thom Monahan dealt with mixing and extra manufacturing duties.
In help of The Landfill, Fruit Bats will launch an intensive North American tour starting in June and persevering with by July, October, and November. Nashville followers could have an opportunity to catch the acclaimed dwell act once they carry out at The Basement East on November 18 as a part of the upcoming run.
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