Fruit Bats "Gold Past Life" Ten Bands One Cause 2023 From Peter Hughes of The

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The recording brims with pent up energy

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Fruit Bats "Gold Past Life" Ten Bands One Cause 2023 From Peter Hughes of TheGold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning for Fruit Bats. It's the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014's EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) and hit an emotional peak with 2016's Absolute Loser. They encompassed years of loss, displacement, and the persistent, low level anxiety of the current political climate. They were written in the wake of friends who left these earthly