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Josh Ritter
So Runs the World Away (Pytheas)
Released May 2010
Josh Hurst

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Style: Pop/rock and American folk; compare to Ron Sexsmith, Dylan, Springsteen

Top tracks: "The Curse," "Change of Time," "Another New World"

Josh Ritter's latest record sprang forth from a song called "The Curse," which tells the tale of a 19th century anthropologist who falls in love with the mummy she unearths. The two characters quickly find themselves in the midst of a timeless, cosmic collision between love and death; Ritter, the not-so-objective narrator, seems troubled by the outcome. Death haunts the whole album, making his grip on love tentative, and inspiring a Job-like shouting match with the Almighty that's not exactly pious, but is nevertheless soul-stirring in its honesty.

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John Lang

May 14, 2010 7:07pm

Josh Ritter is not a religious. Contemplative, yes, but religious? No he isn't. His words are not literal, especially in the sense of some Biblical connection. I find the real true irony of Christians today are posers that are now simulating music that at one time, not too long ago, was considered the "devil's music". It just goes show how Christians are conveniently traitors to their own ideology only to fit into the future. That is hypocritical to the history.

Kory Robinson

May 07, 2010 5:14pm

Thank you Christianity Today for branching out and reviewing albums that may not be necessarily called "christian albums". Everything is Spiritual :)

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