{"id":6855,"date":"2013-05-07T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2013-05-07T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:15:22","slug":"josh-ritter-the-beast-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/05\/07\/josh-ritter-the-beast-in-its-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"JOSH RITTER &#8211; The Beast in its Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/05\/07\/josh-ritter-the-beast-in-its-tracks\/the-beast-in-its-tracks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6856\" alt=\"the-beast-in-its-tracks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beast-in-its-tracks-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When I heard that Josh Ritter\u2019s latest album <em>The Beast in its Tracks<\/em> was written in the shadow of the Ohio folkster\u2019s divorce, I have to admit I was a little apprehensive.<!--more--> Break-up albums have their place, to be sure, but hearing a singer-songwriter spend an album wallowing in the wreckage of a failed relationship doesn\u2019t sound like a ton of fun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thankfully, <em>The Beast in its Tracks<\/em> is less of a wallow and more of a stroll through the shallows of moving on. While Ritter\u2019s divorce hangs over the album, the songs on Beast are largely about release \u2013 about righting yourself and charting a new path without the fog of an old relationship hanging overhead. Rather than writing from the perspective of a man struggling through the messy months following his breakup, <em>The Beast in its Tracks<\/em> is placed firmly after the worst of it has come and gone. This isn\u2019t Ritter dwelling on the past, but rather allowing himself to look forward and begin to feel hopeful about the future. \u201cI\u2019ve got a new lover now,\u201d Ritter sings earnestly, without bitterness, \u201cI hope you\u2019ve got a lover too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musically, Beast tends towards a more stripped down approach than the artist\u2019s last few releases. It\u2019s an enjoyable listen \u2013 and while it\u2019s not particularly pointed or raw, I guess that\u2019s how we all aim to feel after moving on from a lost relationship. (Pytheas, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/joshritter.com\" target=\"_blank\">joshritter.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-27f8d85b-5c3c-eacd-f0ce-00ca5d1133ca\"> Andrew Friesen<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that Josh Ritter\u2019s latest album The Beast in its Tracks was written in the shadow of the Ohio folkster\u2019s divorce, I have to admit I was a little apprehensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[498,817,1106],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-josh-ritter","tag-root-cellar","tag-winnipeg-folk-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}