You can also follow our “Song of the Week” playlist on Spotify (To download on PC- Right Click -> “Save As”, on a MAC CTRL -> “Save As”) Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band will also be bringing their current tour to the area with shows at Philadelphia’s Keswick Theatre on May 18 and the Beacon Theatre in New York City May 20. Spectral Lines, his 11th album, finds those shared experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of Ritter’s previous work. 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. 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. “I feel like songs do that in their own little way. “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. It has nothing to do with his spellbinding new album, Spectral Lines, except that in a way, it really does.
Josh Ritter has been thinking a lot about space exploration.
