Spelled In Bones

Fruit Bats' second Sub Pop LP and third overall is their first without Brian Deck as producer; the result is more spic-and-span 70s pop.

It might not be innovative or progressive, but Spelled In Bones is as straightforwardly good as any pop album this year.

Whenever I listen to the Fruit Bats I always picture frontman Eric Johnson in an overstuffed chair reading Moby Dick, perhaps smoking a pipe, and speculate...