Josh Ritter Reveals Details About New Album And UK Tour
Thursday, 09 September 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
'So Runs The World Away' is the fifth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike.
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 the album release, Josh Ritter will be touring with The Royal City Band and wife Dawn Landes as support, in the UK this September.
17th Town Hall, Oxford
18th Oran Mor, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)
19th Albert Hall, Nottingham
21st St Georges, Bristol
22nd Royal Nothern College of Music, Manchester
23rd Barbican, London
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