JOSH RITTER’S NEW EP OUT NOW
STOP-MOTION MUSIC VIDEO, FEATURING 12,000 PIECES OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER AND NO SPECIAL EFFECTS, PREMIERES ON ETSY
“Ritter doesn’t make music that sticks close to fashion; he makes music that sticks in the gut and doesn’t let go.”—NPR Music
Bringing in the Darlings, the new EP from celebrated singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, is out now on Pytheas Recordings. The limited edition CD/vinyl/digital release features six new songs and was recorded and mixed over three days this winter at Homeward Sound, a small studio in Brooklyn, NY. Of the stripped-down, stand-alone EP, Ritter tells Paste Magazine, “As time goes on, it’s good to remember that recording is not necessarily a long process. It’s always a fun process, and what you’re trying to do is balance the art form of the recording with the excitement of recording it. I think there’s a certain spark when something’s written and it rolls off the tongue easily, and you can always hear the person’s excitement when it’s happening.”
In conjunction with the EP’s release, the music video for the song “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home” premiered February 21 on Etsy. The video, created by Erez Horovitz and Sam Cohen of Prominent Figures, was made with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post. Of the creative process, Cohen comments, “The video for ‘Love is Making It's Way Back Home’ was definitely the most labor intensive video we’ve been a part of—and with my background in stop-motion collage animation, and Erez having worked on videos for OK Go, that’s kind of saying a lot. The video was made in several stages: storyboarding, computer animation, converting the computer graphics frame by frame to paper cutouts, and photographing those roughly 12,000 cutouts into about four minutes of paper animation. The video you see in the end is purely physical frame-by-frame animation. Everything you see is photographs of paper with no effects whatsoever.”
Ritter is currently writing and recording his next full studio album—the follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed release So Runs the World Away.
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