So Runs The World Away (studio album) by Josh Ritter

So Runs The World Away by Josh Ritter
Year: 2010
Release date: 2010-05-04
Overall rank: 14,065th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 36 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2010 (307th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (3,014th)
Award Best albums of all time (14,065th)
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So Runs The World Away is ranked 5th best out of 21 albums by Josh Ritter on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Josh Ritter is The Animal Years which is ranked number 7044 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 181.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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74/100 (from 36 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 26% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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From 12/18/2016 02:47
Josh Ritter has recorded a number of great albums, and while So Runs the World isn't in the very top tier, it's still an excellent album, deserving of a high ranking on this 2010s chart. This record is slightly more diverse in instrumentation than some of his other efforts, and maybe a little more experimental (though "experimental" isn't really a word you use to describe Josh Ritter). Populated with wandering mariners, lovesick Egyptian mummies, philosophical chemists, mountaintop seers, grim polar adventurers, and recurring black holes, Ritter’s exquisite collection of songs reflects a desire on the songwriter's part to break free of lyrical and narrative convention, offering something oddly adventurous to his often Dylan- and Cohenesque discography. My favorite tune here is "Change of Time," a song that grapples with the way love transforms over time: "I had a dream last night / And rusting far below me / Battered hulls and broken hardships / Leviathan and Lonely / I was thirsty so I drank / And though it was salt water / There was something 'bout the way / It tasted so familiar."
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From 08/17/2015 18:42
Change of time is great, the Curse is brilliant. It's a waltz about an archeologist falling in love with the mummy she uncovered. It's beautiful and strange and may be my favorite Ritter song. After track 4 the album starts its decent however.
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Pretty forgettable album if not for Change of Time which will surely be one of the best songs of the decade.
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From 12/08/2011 22:18
This is an album that my wife has mistaken as paul simon one moment and billy joel the next. This guy has a knack for smart lyrics and a soothing melody and peels back the production gloss found on his last album.
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