Reknowned American singer-songwriter Josh Ritter will release his new album 'So Runs The World Away' on August 23rd with a run of UK tour dates in September to promote the release.
This is the fifth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike. Of the Idaho-native, Paste magazine declares, "Put simply, Ritter is the most gifted interpreter of Americana, as an arranger and a lyricist, working today."
Recorded over 15 months at the Great North Sound Society in Maine, with additional recording at Brooklyn's Saltlands Studio, So Runs The World Away continues Ritter's longtime collaboration with producer and keyboard player Sam Kassirer. Additionally, the album features the return of Ritter's core line-up of touring bandmates: Zack Hickman, Austin Nevins and Liam Hurley.
Of the record, Ritter says, "I think of the songs on So Runs the World Away like pictures painted in oil on large canvasses. It's a record preoccupied with the extremes of scale, from infinitesimal particles to the nearly incomprehensible distances between the head of a pin and a nebula. Where the songs felt large to me, I wanted them to be huge, both musically and lyrically. I wanted them to feel like the steel hulls of massive ships sliding by deeply from below. Where they were small, I concentrated in on the smallest details that I could and we tried to make the music and the words work together. I love writing, and this was the most fulfilling record I've yet written."
In addition to writing the songs on this album, Ritter has been working on a novel set in rural West Virginia in the aftermath of the First World War. Tentative publication date is Summer 2011 on Dial Press/Random House. He will be touring with The Royal City Band and wife Dawn Landes as support, in the UK this September.
Josh Ritter Tour Dates are as follows:
17-Sep Oxford Town Hall
18-Sep Glasgow Oran Mor
19-Sep Nottingham Albert Hall
21-Sep Bristol St Georges
22-Sep Manchester Royal Northern College of Music
23-Sep London Barbican
Tickets are onsale now.
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