Josh Ritter - Sermon On The Rocks - VINYL LP

Reissued on crystal clear vinyl for the 10th anniversary this September, 'Too Bright,' remains an early standout of Perfume Genius's (Mike Hadreas) unparalleled oeuvre.

October 18, 1987 was a very special day for the two brothers Michael Brecker & Randy Brecker. For years both had conquered the stages of the world together with their band Brecker Brothers and earned the reputation of being among the world's leading jazz musicians on their instruments, the saxophone and the trumpet.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 . Josh Ritter has been thinking a lot about space exploration. It has nothing to do with his spellbinding album, Spectral Lines, except that in a way, it really does. InchThe 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,Inch Ritter says. InchI feel like songs do that in their own little way. 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.Inch Ritter, too, is sending back messages, in the form of 10 new songs that are atmospheric and impressionistic. 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. Spectral Lines, his 11th album, finds those shared experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of Ritter's previous work. Recorded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, it's an album full of wonder and light as Ritter considers the ideas of love, devotion and what it means to be connected, to each other and to ourselves. InchI think it's important for us to share some of our most basic and common experiences with each other, however we can,Inch he says. InchThat's kind of what we really, really need right now.Inch