Fruit Bats Announce Intimate New Album ‘Baby Man’ & 2025 Fall Tour Dates

Fruit Bats (Eric D. Johnson) announced a new album, Baby Man, due out on September 12 via Merge Records. Along with announcing a fall solo tour, Johnson also shared the first preview of the new record, “Stuck In My Head Again.”

For Baby Man, Fruit Bats reunited with producer/engineer Thom Monahan. Monahan also worked on Fruit Bats’ 2011 LP Tripper and 2016’s Absolute Loser. For Baby Man’s 10 tracks, Johnson and Monahan worked in a minimalist style with just guitar, piano and a touch of synthesizer here and there.

“Johnson’s use of space throughout the album is often as enchanting as the music and his remarkable voice, which is as expressive as ever,” as per press materials for Baby Man. Monahan also pushed Johnson’s voice to the front of the mixes, “which elevates both the command and the vulnerability of each performance.”

Fruit Bats offer the first taste of Baby Man with “Stuck In My Head Again,” which Eric D. Johnson detailed:

“Right now this world is big and weird and horrible and yeah, sometimes even beautiful in short bursts. A loud place. But if you wanna take a quick moment and get eye-level with me, hear me whisper a dream in your ear, I got a new album that will do that. Here’s the first song from it. It’s a dream all right, but really a fever dream of sorts. The narrator is hazy, and in a haze, and sometimes I’m not even sure who they are. And yeah, it’s like how when you’re stuck in your own head you can get a song stuck in your head over and over. Hopefully this one gets in there (in a good way). Love you all.”

Listen to “Stuck In My Head Again” below:

Fruit Bats is set for a solo tour around Baby Man in October and November. Among the stops are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Brooklyn, the Boston area and more.

Following various presales, tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 20 at 10 a.m. local.