(2019) Josh Ritter - Fever Breaks [FLAC,Tracks]

(2019) Josh Ritter - Fever Breaks





Review:

Josh Ritter hits a couple of round-numbered milestones this year, most notably 20 years (since the release of his debut) and 10 albums. So it only makes sense that he’d stir up his process a bit, bringing in new collaborators in pursuit of a jolt worthy of these jolt-filled times. On Fever Breaks, that means staking his lot with producer Jason Isbell — one of the hottest and surest names in Americana music — and Isbell’s 400 Unit, which serves as Ritter’s backing band for the first time here. Together, they infuse the singer’s ever-incisive songwriting with a bit of gutty Southern-rock heft. Ritter, Isbell and the 400 Unit all suit one another nicely, knowing when to seethe, when to swing and when to lean into the turbulence of it all. That turbulence translates nicely into Ritter’s lyrics. In the album-opening one-two punch of “Ground Don’t Want Me” and “Old Black Magic,” he leans hard into his gifts for pairing bluesy, hard-bitten world-weariness with a poet’s soul. Even in overtly warmhearted songs like “I Still Love You (Now and Then),” Ritter sings like a man who’s carried some literal and psychological weight, while “The Torch Committee” finds the 400 Unit mostly hanging back as Ritter coldly recounts a cruel bureaucracy’s ability to demolish lives. Throughout Fever Breaks, Josh Ritter tweaks and further reinvigorates a sound and songwriting approach that’s lost none of its vitality or urgency in 20 years. He remains a hydrant of ideas while embodying an endless capacity for empathy and indignation, often within a single song.











Tracklist:

01 - Ground Don't Want Me

02 - Old Black Magic

03 - On the Water

04 - I Still Love You (Now and Then)

05 - The Torch Committee

06 - Silverblade

07 - All Some Kind of Dream

08 - Losing Battles

09 - A New Man

10 - Blazing Highway Home





Summary:

Country: USA

Genre: indie-folk, indie-rock





Media Report:

Source: CD

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode: Variable

Bit rate: ~ 719-926 Kbps

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits