As one of the most thoughtful singer-songwriters around, Josh Ritter isn't one to write angry, over-the-top, knee-jerk breakup songs - even though his new album, The Beast in Its Tracks, was written ...

Maybe it’s the little “by” on the cover, but it seems like Josh Ritter has taken some kind of quantum leap here. On his sixth studio record, the title — So Runs the World Away — is spelled out, and ...

Unlike some of his albums there’s a fair bit of filler, and one song, “Wild Ways” which is downright icky, a lame gospel-tinted FM radio rocker about “a higher calling”. There are others where, ...