Frannie meets its eclectic residents such as the Gatekeeper, the Baker Boy, the Lord of the Rhum, and the Carol Kings (the band’s alter egos).

However, they had recorded some new material stuffed inside a music box which they are planning to play to the Skid Kids outside Fruitcake Heights.

They head out of town before realizing that they left the music box, so they return to Fruitcake Heights, where they find out that its residents had contracted a contagious virus called Monovirus.

Local critics found several Beatles references in the album, such as the end of "Fruit Fairy" referencing the 1967 song "A Day in the Life".

[2] "Christmas Party" has disco elements,[3] and was later covered by SB19 in 2022 to commemorate the band's Huling El Bimbo reunion concert.

[7] Fruitcake also features contributions from Rivermaya's Rico Blanco, rapper Francis M., his wife Pia Arroyo and her sister Myla (as Evil Stepsisters), singer/actress Agot Isidro, Jeng Tan of Keltscross, Richard Gonzaga of local jazz band Parliament, Robert Javier of The Youth, and Medwin Marfil of True Faith (who was not credited in the album sleeve).

“The concept is fine, and the music is surprisingly accomplished, but they’re skating dangerously near preciousness,” said Barbara Marchadesch in her review for Manila Standard.

But I won’t listen to it in its entirety...A lot of people noticed [the Beatles influences] and that’s one of the things I regret, not being able to see the bigger picture.