Fruit Bats w/Death Vessel, @ Larimer Lounge, August 29, 2009 – Reverb
September 2, 2009
Photo - Alissa Anderson, MySpace.
[Eric D. Johnson‘s Fruit Bats] weaved a ’70s-tinged folky-pop tapestry that recalled as much Supertramp and the Allman Brothers as My Morning Jacket and, yes, just a slight dusting of the Shins, as they choogled through an hour-long set of alternately jammy and poppy tunes.
As strong a performance as Fruit Bats put in, it was nearly overshadowed by Providence, R.I.’s Death Vessel, fronted by wunderkind Joel Thibodeau. With a noisy, goth-folk aura behind his eerily beautiful, unusually high-pitched vocals, Death Vessel had the audience transfixed from the first notes on.
Read the entire review at Denver Post Reverb!!
