Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) Sakamoto cultural touchstones of the 2010's

cultural touchstones of the 2010's and 2020's

Black Thought) (4:11)

Soundtrack composed by the great James Horner

all of which is blended with a high-octane swell of grind/powerviolence riffs

stacked with references to the state of hip-hop circa the early '90s

Fruit Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001-2021) Sakamoto cultural touchstones of the 2010'sEric D. Johnson, the creative force behind Fruit Bats, doesn't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. But with the 20th anniversary of his first Fruit Bats release (2001's Echolocation) on his mind, it seemed as good a time as any to take stock of his work and he's doing so in the form of Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001 2021), a two disc collection that tracks the history of Fruit Bats