Josh Ritter – The Beast In Its Tracks // Limited Edition Deluxe LP & 2 limited to 1000 7″

Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus! This is an amazing bit of news! As my 1,500 scrobbles on Last.fm will attest, I love Josh Ritter. So so very much. I can’t wait to hear what kinds of stories he will tell us this time. There’s tons of details here, I’ll see what I can do.

The Details

First thing to buy –

The Beast In Its Tracks Deluxe Vinyl LP (Limited Edition)

Deluxe LP includes a bonus Gasoline 7” with 3 non-album tracks and is limited to 1,000 copies worldwide.

Your pre-order includes an immediate download of the first single off of the record “Joy To You Baby”. You will also receive a digital download of the entire album on release date

Second thing to buy –

Joy To You Baby Vinyl 7″ Single

Ships immediately and includes a non-album track titled “I Got My Own Way”.

Pressed on coke bottle clear vinyl, hand numbered out of 1000 limited edition copies.

Your pre-order includes an immediate MP3 download of the single “Joy To You Baby”.

Price – $22 & $6 for the 7″

Buy Now

Listen on Soundcloud

[soundcloud params=”auto_play=false&show_comments=true&color=0ac4ff”]https://soundcloud.com/josh-ritter/joy-to-you-baby-1[/soundcloud]

Watch on Vimeo

Josh Ritter – The Beast In Its Tracks Album Teaser from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

3 Comments

wickcreative 2012/12/11

Looks like this might have already sold out since we posted it. sorry if you missed it. I did get this in an email from Ritter. I thought it was worth adding. I love when artists are this transparent, makes the music mean that much more.

"I wrote and recorded this record in the 18 months after my marriage had fallen apart. All heartbreak is awful – my broken heart wasn’t unique. But writing these songs was helping me get through the night and I didn’t have the strength to care or question.

It felt like a different record from the start. Far from the grand, sweeping feel of the songs on So Runs the World Away, these new ones felt like rocks in the shoe, hard little nuggets of whatever they were, be it spite, remorse, or happiness. I told all this to Sam Kassirer, my producer and friend. If we recorded these songs, which felt so personal, their starkness needed a corresponding simplicity of production. I hadn’t composed this stuff, I’d scrawled it down, just trying to keep ahead of the heartbreak, and they needed to be recorded like that.

Listening to it now makes me very proud. I can’t wait to share it with all of you.

Love,
Josh

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retter 2012/12/12

crazy, that this sold out that fast. i'm really surprised and lucky, that i got one.

Ryan Anthony Davis 2012/12/12

Tried to buy one today, but no luck. Sucks that I missed it. Guess it'll be eBay or getting lucky finding it somewhere. Regardless, can't wait to hear this record. Ritter is definitely one of my favorite artist and I know it wont disappoint.