Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
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Free Music Review: Good but not Great
Hit: 4 Stars
I rate this 3.5, and round it up...because I like the guy and his songs, but the really good lyrics are diminished some by the sound of the songs.
I recently discovered Josh after hearing a killer cover of Lawrence KS by Richard Shindell and, while I think he has potential and can write great songs the sound here is derivitive... (in this order; Iron and Wine, Towns Van Zandt, Nick Drake, Warren Zevon, David Bowie/Kurt Cobane, The Beatles, Bob Dylan...) somewhere towards the end of the CD I start to hear Josh's style... and it stikes me as good unpolished American folk; a genuine artist still searching for his voice. I'll keep listening, at least he's following in big footsteps.
Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this album so much. I've owned it for 4 years and it's one of the few albums that I still play often year after year. Very thoughtful lyrics, great acoustic sound. Whenever I've had a rough day, I put this on.Free Music Review: The best musician I have found
Hit: 5 Stars
A couple of months ago I was watching a pod about the SXSW music festival in which they featured Josh Ritter for about 10 seconds. From that short exposure I became interested and I soon got the first two albums, which I really loved. When I became hungrier for more Josh Ritter I got this album, and after listening to eat once I fell in love with in and liked it more than the latter two. The other two are more clean and may be a little over worked, but this album has that rough characteristic of an artist that has finally discovered his what his music is about, it is Josh Ritter with out being spoiled by over production and editing of his music. It is simply one of the best albums I have ever owned. Free Music Review: He's From IDAHO, not Rhode Island
Hit: 5 Stars
Probably the most under-rated folk musician around, his lyrics are amazingly descriptive and melodies range from upbeat to languid. If you have The Animal Years (which is great) or Hello Starling (merely good), you should get this album.Free Music Review: No more!!
Hit: 2 Stars
I continue my campaign to get all these mopey guys who are so heavily influenced by Nick Drake and Elliott Smith to go ahead and follow their example a little more closely.
Okay, that sounds a bit harsh, but I really mean musically, not the other thing. There are some good songs on here but they are desperatly in need of someone to arrange some decent music and some less monotonous singing. I mean, even if Drake and Smith sounded like they were on 'ludes, there was a certain complexity to their music. A non-English-speaker would be hardpressed to differntiate one song from another on this album.
Whatever you do, don't play this for a coma patient.
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