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A prolific singer/songwriter, film composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and the frontman/founder of popular Midwest folk-rock outfit
the Fruit Bats, Chicago native
Eric D. Johnson, who also records under the moniker
EDJ, has proven himself to be a versatile and unpredictable artist since emerging in the late '90s. He released of string of well-received albums with
the Fruit Bats, mostly through Sub Pop, beginning in 2001 with
Echolocation and more recently with
Tripper in 2011. Within that same time frame he appeared on albums by
Califone,
Sally Timms,
Vetiver, and
the Shins, the latter of whom he joined for a time, and in 2010 he issued his first film score with the romantic comedy Ceremony. Subsequent film works included original scores for Our Idiot Brother, Smashed, Nature Calls, After Tiller, Goodbye World, Date & Switch, and Life Partners. He has produced albums by
Breathe Owl Breathe (2013's
Passage of Pegasus) and
Cardigans vocalist
Nina Persson (2014's
Animal Heart).
Johnson released his first album as
EDJ eponymously in 2014. ~ James Christopher Monger