Fruit Bats - Pet Parade escape games released in 1984

released in 1984

During the autumn

while tenderly romancing the unsuspected

Encountering a jarl is sure to bring injury

they've appeared as guest musicians on each other's records as far back as 1974

Fruit Bats - Pet Parade escape games released in 1984The Pet Parade, the title track to Fruit Bats' ninth album, might be a surprising opening track for longtime fans of Eric D. Johnson's 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