The Beast In Its Tracks (studio album) by Josh Ritter
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The Beast In Its Tracks is ranked 4th best out of 22 albums by Josh Ritter on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Josh Ritter is The Animal Years which is ranked number 7102 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 178.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 08/13/2023 18:15 | LosWochos | | 75/100 |
70/100 | 06/29/2023 19:52 | jlsfourth | | 71/100 |
85/100 | 02/02/2022 20:56 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | | 79/100 |
75/100 | 03/05/2021 02:43 | Moondance | | 72/100 |
60/100 | 10/11/2019 17:45 | cronadigallina | | 67/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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buzzdainer 12/01/2016 22:07
The Beast in Its Tracks--an album inspired by, and whose energy is animated by, a painful divorce that he went through--is Josh Ritter's Blood on the Tracks. Although there are definitely moments of bitterness and anger here, what is most admirable about this album is how hopeful and forgiving it is. This is best heard on the tender and absolutely lovely "Joy to You Baby," with its lyrics that I very much hope are true, for both Josh's sake and my own: "There's pain in whatever / We stumble upon / If I never had met you / You couldn't have gone / But then I couldn't have met you / We couldn't have been / I guess it all adds up / To joy to the end."
paladisiac 12/24/2013 03:07
Josh Ritter continues to put out solid, acoustic-guitar-laden, americana/folk. Save a gloriously over-produced "historical conquests...", this has been the case his entire career. With songwriting this good, it's hard to call for change. "the beast in its tracks" is a hopeful, upbeat album despite Josh coming off a relationship breakup. (Supposedly, he recorded an entire album based on the souring relationship before junking it for this more positive outlook.) But there still are a couple of hints of breakup blues, as on "appleblossom rag", if that's your thing. The album doesn't mine the lyrical depths of "animal years" and the grand sonic scale of "historical conquests..." but it does fall nicely in line with his last album, "so runs the world away", an album borne off of acoustic guitar by a strong singer-songwriter, and that's plenty fine by itself.
samistake2ice 03/10/2013 21:10
Break up albums: So Hot right now. but seriously, its great. i think its Ritters best since The Animal Years. probably gonna be on repeat for a while.
Mercury 03/07/2013 14:14
On first listen, I really enjoyed this record. It's an absolute and total "Break up album" but damn ! There's some really sharp sharp songs about Jealousy and relationships. The song writing is stellar as usual. The instrumentation is a lot more straightforward acoustic than the previous Ritter albums since "Hello Starling". Highlights for me are "Bonfire", "A Certain Light", and "In Your Arms Again". Definitely recommended to any Josh Ritter fans put there.
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