Josh Ritter has announced the release of his sixth full-length recording ‘The Beast In Its Tracks’ which will be released March 4th on Pytheas Recordings.
Of the record, Ritter says, “In the year after my marriage ended, I realized 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.”
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.”
UK & European Dates
July 18 Big Top Limerick, Ireland
July 19 Venue To Be Announced Dublin, Ireland
12/14 July 21 An Grainan Theatre Letterkenny, Ireland
July 23 Village Underground London, UK
July 25 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
