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Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Josh Ritter remains at the top of his game two decades into a highlight-strewn career.
He
d be forgiven for loosening his grip, but his hand has never felt surer.
-
NPR Music
Harking back to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and maybe a little Mark Knopfler, Mr.
Ritter
has always been a slinger of serious ideas and high-flown imagery.
-
The New York Times
Mysterious, melancholy, melodic...and those are only the Ms.
Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly
Renowned
singer, songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter will
release
his anticipated new album, Spectral Lines, April 28 via Thirty Tigers.
One
of todays most thoughtful and prolific voices, Ritter has released ten studio albums
including
2019s widely acclaimed, Fever Breaks, of which NPR Music praised, He
remains
a hydrant of ideas while embodying an endless capacity for empathy and
indignation,
often within a single song.
In
addition to his work as a musician, Ritter is also a national best-selling author, having
released
two novels to date: 2021s The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All and 2011s
Bright
s Passage. Released to critical attention, Stephen King wrote in The New York
Times
Book Review that Brights Passage shines with a compressed lyricism that
recalls
Ray Bradbury in his prime...This is the work of a gifted novelist.
About
the new album Spectral Lines (out 4/29):
Josh
Ritter has been thinking a lot about space exploration. It has nothing to do with his
spellbinding
new album, Spectral Lines, except that in a way, it really does.
The Voyager spacecraft went up in 77 and now its out there in a place that no ones
ever
been before, and its sending back all these messages, Ritter says. I feel like
songs
do that in their own little way. Theyre probes: they go out into the world, and
sometimes
you hear stories back from them, but really, they go off on their own.
Ritter,
too, is sending back messages, in the form of 10 new songs that are atmospheric
and
impressionistic. Like the recently launched Webb Telescope, or Voyager all those
years
ago, hes looking for signs of life, reaching for a sense of commonality, something
that
feels universal in this infinite universe. Spectral Lines, his 11th album, finds those
shared
experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of Ritters previous work.
Rec
orded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, its an album full of
wonder and light as Ritter considers the ideas of love, devotion and what it means to be
connected,
to each other and to ourselves.

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