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‘The Beast In Its Tracks’ released March 4th
‘The Beast In Its Tracks,’ the new album from renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, will be released March 4th on Yep Roc/Pytheas Recordings.
Of the record, Ritter says, “In the year after my marriage ended, I realised that I had more new songs than I’d ever had at one time. Far from the grand, sweeping feel of the songs on ‘So Runs the World Away’, these new songs felt like rocks in the shoe, hard little nuggets of whatever they were, be it spite, remorse, or happiness.”
This is the sixth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike.
Recorded during 2011-2012 at the Great North Sound Society in Parsonsfield, Maine, ‘The Beast In Its Tracks’ continues Ritter’s longtime collaboration with producer and keyboard player Sam Kassirer. As Josh describes, “I hadn’t composed this stuff, I’d scrawled it down, just trying to keep ahead of the heartbreak. They needed to be recorded like that. We needed to work fast, make decisions quickly, keep the songs as spare as they could be kept, and above all never allow ourselves to blunt the sharp edges.“
The new album follows the 2010 album, ‘So Runs The World Away’, which was called “a compelling ride” by Uncut, Q said “the album he has been threatening to deliver his whole career” and “his talent for storytelling and emotive, haunting song-writing makes his music a wonderful, unique proposition” said The Sun.
In 2011, Ritter made is debut as a published author with his New York Times Best-selling novel, Bright’s Passage (Dial Press/Random House). Of the work, Stephen King writes in The New York Times Book Review, “Shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime . . . This is the work of a gifted novelist.”
Josh Ritter plays London’s Village Underground on 23rd & 24th July.
Josh Ritter – ‘The Beast In Its Tracks’
1. Third Arm
2. Evil Eye
3. A Certain Light
4. Hopeful
5. Nightmares
6. New Lover
7. Heart’s Ease
8. In Your Arms Again
9. The Appleblossom Rag
10. Bonfire
11. In Your Arms Awhile
12. Joy To You Baby
13. Lights