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    Forever Bats

    Nov 29, 2020 3 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    The Bats have never been in a flap. They played their first show on New Year’s Eve 1982. It took, via a couple of EPs, a few years until they got to 1987 debut album Daddy’s Highway. In 2020, they’ve just released Foothills, their 10th long player. It’s another weirdly wistful, quietly chugging, scorched-at-the-edges set of Bats-ian folk-rock. Though reassuringly low-key, it comes from the period of revitalisation that began with 2011 album Free All the Monsters.

    As they head towards their 40th anniversary, the Bats represent a different kind of rock

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