Fruit Bats - The Pet ParadeThe Pet Parade, the title track to Fruit Bats newest album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnsons beloved indie folk rock project. The six and a half minute tone poem smolders and drones over just two chords, inspired by the strange and silly community events that he saw growing up outside of Chicago, in La Grange, Illinois, in which people dressed up and showed off their pets. Decades later, The Pet Parade emerges

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