Fruit Bats

The official YouTube channel for the indie, folk rock band Fruit Bats.

Since the late nineties, Fruit Bats has revolved around singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson. After five Fruit Bats albums Johnson shed the Fruit Bats name as a cleanse of sorts. Grief-stricken after the loss of his wife's pregnancy he felt the need to to start afresh. In the process of grieving, reflecting, and resigning himself to his new realities, Johnson realized how much weight a name can carry and how much of his sense of self was contained in just two small words - Fruit Bats. 

In 2016 Fruit Bats return and the rebirth parallels Johnson's resiliency, and Absolute Loser is his treaty on how to redefine oneself after tragedy. Although he maintains that he doesn't have it all figured out quite yet, Johnson acknowledges that with that self-awareness comes some sort of acceptance.