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So Runs The World Away

Josh Ritter

So Runs The World Away

Seventh album of alt country / neo folk from the Idaho-born singer-songwriter

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Pytheas
UK Release date
23/08/2010
  1. 8.0 |   Q

    The album he's been threatening to deliver all his career. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Ritter's most freewheeling album. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    An experience way more pleasurable than a record about orbital transits and lunar canals has any right to be
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  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    The album’s themes and sounds unfurl with gradual beauty
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The man has been telling his stories for more than a decade now, but for some reason, this particular album seems to be more effective both musically and in the stories it tells
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  6. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Stirring stuff, and food for thought, too
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  7. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A genuinely majestic creation, brimming with a richness of substance to both enthral and devastate
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  8. 7.0 |   BBC

    This album shows Ritter developing continually, and there’s potential for greatness, in time
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  9. 6.5 |   Prefix

    For those of us waiting for him to really knock another out of the park the way he did on The Animal Years, it might be a let down to realize So Runs the World Away isn't that
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  10. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    So Runs the World Away might be a triumph, but, relying mostly on its pristine production, it doesn’t hold up so well. It’s a sonic achievement, but not much else
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  11. 6.0 |   Bowlegs

    The tunes are still there ... but these grand and lengthy offerings are starting to suffocate Ritter’s honest, hard earned songs
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