Fruit Bats – You're Too Weird

What do you get when you mix the Bee Gees with Flight of the Conchords? Fruit Bats, apparently. Not the Halloweeny kind, but the band from Chicago. With super high-pitched vocals and acoustic guitars, the Fruit Bats really know how to write the catchy throwback-style songs Bret and Jemaine might’ve written while sitting on their twin beds, staring awkwardly into each other’s eyes, channeling the Gibbs brothers. And I mean that as a compliment.

Fruit Bats can also get a little rockin’, and a little folky–a good combination, if you ask me. But my first impression of the band, the song “You’re Too Weird,” was more spot-on than I realized. If you want to take this song seriously, you should maybe just listen to the audio first. Then watch the music video. Brilliant. Because no guy that sings as high as Eric D. Johnson (also of The Shins) should take themselves too seriously, and Johnson most definitely does not.