Portland, Oregon quintet Fruition perform folk-rock with touches of psych, soul, and bluegrass. Sometimes lumped in with the jam band and alt-country scenes, the band's debut effort, Hawthorne Hoedown, was a rootsy, string-centric affair that lived up to its title. The self-titled Fruition arrived in 2010, boasting a fully formed sound familiar to fans of Greensky Bluegrass, Railroad Earth, and even more mainstream acts like Lake Street Dive, Edward Sharpe, and the Lumineers. It Won't Be Long was issued in 2012, quickly followed by Just One of Them Nights the next year. After the release of the Holehearted Fools EP, Fruition unveiled their fourth effort, Labor of Love. In 2018 they released their fifth album, Watching It All Fall Apart. ~ Neil Z. Yeung