Description
LABEL: Merge Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 09/12/2025
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2025
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP
Baby Man, the new album by Fruit Bats, is like nothing else in Grammy-nominated songwriter
Eric D. Johnson’s catalog. Little in the arc of his career—including Fruit Bats’ evolution from
home recording project to rollicking roadshow, his solo output, and his work with Bonny Light Horseman—points the way to this album, in which his only accompaniment, aside from the occasional blush of synthesizer, is a guitar, banjo, or piano. Save for producer Thom Monahan, reuniting with Johnson for the first time since Fruit Bats’ 2019 breakthrough Gold Past Life, it’s just Johnson in the room, meaning that when the turntable’s needle meets Baby Man’s groove, it’s just him and the listener, mutually in for a reckoning.