Fruit Bats : Primitive Man
Monday, December 07, 2009
Deep In The Heart Of A Primitive Band
The first few notes of "Primitive Man" are so reminiscent of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" that at first I thought it was a cover but turns out it was just some early icing on an 11 layer cake.
You know an album is good when you are debating which of 5 different tracks should make your 'Best Songs Of 2009' list. That's 5 out of 11 or something approaching a ridiculously high musical batting average (see our take on the title track, "Ruminant Band")
I'm still not sure why this album didn't get more attention than it did. It's great from start to finish and an album I find myself playing over and over again. Front man Eric Johnson also plays for The Shins (and Vetiver and Califone!!), and the band has ended up with a bit of "A Countrified Shins" label (that album art sure looks reminiscent of Chutes Too Narrow). The reference is fair...to a point... and more so on some tracks like "Tegucigulpa".
On others-like this one- the band is just rock solid American Music of the best sort, the kind that use to populate FM radio from the likes of Neil Young, Tom Petty, and the The Allman Brothers. It's a song that sits at the crossroads of numerous decades; tuneful, approachable, filled with fantastic slide guitar and unexplainedly devoid of radio play.
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