Artist: Fruit Bats
Title: The Landfill
Format: Pink Splatter Clear Vinyl LP
Edition: Limited Edition, Indie Exclusive
Number of Tracks: 10
Release Date: 16 Jun - 2026
Record Label: Merge
Genre: Rock - Alternative Rock
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Catalogue: MRG887LP-C1
EAN: 0673855088709 /
Tracklisting: 1 - The Saddest Part Of The Song | 2 - All Wounds | 3 - Think Aboutcha | 4 - That Goddamn Sun | 5 - Silverfish In The Sink | 6 - Wild Pony Tower Moment | 7 - Fishin’ For A Vision | 8 - Perhaps We’Re A Storm | 9 - Hummingbird Sage | 10 - The Landfill
Release Notes: The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots, parks, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart.Over the course of his now 25-year career under the Fruit Bats moniker, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs, to borrow a phrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that — he disallowed himself from referring to material he’d been working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique of stream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon recording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson’s skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album.