LABEL: Merge Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 09/12/2025
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2025
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP

Baby Man, the new album by Fruit Bats, is like nothing else in Grammy-nominated songwriter
Eric D. Johnsons catalog. Little in the arc of his careerincluding Fruit Bats evolution from
home recording project to rollicking roadshow, his solo output, and his work with Bonny Light Horsemanpoints the way to this album, in which his only accompaniment, aside from the occasional blush of synthesizer, is a guitar, banjo, or piano. Save for producer Thom Monahan, reuniting with Johnson for the first time since Fruit Bats 2019 breakthrough Gold Past Life, its just Johnson in the room, meaning that when the turntables needle meets Baby Mans groove, its just him and the listener, mutually in for a reckoning.