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Josh Ritter

“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 M’s.”

— Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly

Renowned singer, songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter has

released his anticipated new album, Spectral Lines, out now via Thirty Tigers.

One of today’s most thoughtful and prolific voices, Ritter has released eleven studio

albums including 2019’s 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: 2021’s The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All and 2011’s

Bright’s Passage. Released to critical attention, Stephen King wrote in The New York

Times Book Review that Bright’s 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 now):

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 it’s out there in a place that no one’s

ever been before, and it’s sending back all these messages,” Ritter says. “I feel like

songs do that in their own little way. They’re 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, he’s 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 Ritter’s previous work.

Recorded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, it’s 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.