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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2024
- Summary: The latest full-length release from Alynda Segarra's project Hurray for the Riff Raff features contributions by Anjimile, Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Meg Duffy, S.G. Goodman, Mike Mogis, and Conor Oberst.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 21, 2024Hurray for the Riff Raff not only expands the umbrella of “Americana”; it challenges the very structures on which we hang it, and the legacies of pain that accompany them.
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Feb 20, 2024The music is deceptively complex in its simplicity. The individual tracks always carry us to places we didn’t know we were heading.
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Feb 23, 2024The Past Is Still Alive is a remarkable album, one which achieves the impossible trick of capturing the mood of a nation and a vivid portrait of a single fascinating person – all within one gorgeous stew.
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UncutFeb 20, 2024They make a welcome return to the looser, roots sound of earlier albums. [Feb 2024, p.28]
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Feb 20, 2024There's an ever-growing sense that Segarra is in a class above in terms of poignant lyricism and emotive performance – The Past Is Still Alive reaffirms this in spades.
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Feb 26, 2024There are words of love for suicidal addicts (Alibi) and a sense of the distance travelled, while remaining constant: an outlier whose solidarity with the runaways and the marginalised endures.
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Feb 21, 2024But if Life On Earth still felt intent on defining itself in part by what it was not, The Past is Still Alive achieves something even braver: Segarra has honed their craft into a cohesive, astonishingly realized singer-songwriter record.