Fruit Bats w/Death Vessel, @ Larimer Lounge, August 29, 2009 – Reverb

Fruit Bats w/Death Vessel, @ Larimer Lounge, August 29, 2009 – Reverb

September 2, 2009 Off By Billy Thieme
Photo - Alissa Anderson, MySpace.

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!!

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  • Billy Thieme

    Aging punk rocker with a deep of all things musical and artistic, enough to remain constantly young and perpetually mystified. Billy has journalistic dreams, but of a decidedly pastoral, Scottish nature.