The Past is Still Alive, by Hurray For The Riff Raff

The Past is Still Alive

by Hurray For The Riff Raff

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frozentanukii This album feels magical, in a way. It's warm, inviting, and colourful. This is an easy contender for the best country album of 2024. Favorite track: Hawkmoon.

The Jealous Cactus "Say goodbye to America
I wanna see it dissolve
I can be your poster boy for the great American fall"
I've really liked their more rock sounding albums, but still nice to hear them go back to acoustic since it really lets the songwriting take focus. Favorite track: Colossus of Roads.

zhangtastic A very nice listen that emulates a ride in the wagon. The album is so sincere and it yearns for so much. Favorite track: Buffalo.

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1.	Alibi 02:48 video	buy track
2.	Buffalo 03:42	buy track
3.	Hawkmoon 03:42 video	buy track
4.	Colossus of Roads 02:45 video	buy track
5.	Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive) 04:07 video	buy track
6.	Vetiver 03:52	buy track
7.	Hourglass 02:50	buy track
8.	Dynamo 03:07	buy track
9.	The World Is Dangerous 03:45	buy track
10.	Ogallala 04:59	buy track
11.	Kiko Forever 01:02	buy track

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The Past Is Still Alive sees Hurray for the Riff Raff reunite with Brad Cook, while further expanding their creative cast of collaborators. Anjimile, Conor Oberst, and S.G. Goodman all join Alynda Segarra on vocals at various points throughout the LP, with a band of musicians including Cook, Libby Rodenbough, Matt Douglas, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, Mike Mogis, Phil Cook, and Yan Westerlund. Mike Mogis also mixed the album, and it was mastered by Heba Kadry.

The “nature punk” of Life on Earth marked a departure for Hurray for the Riff Raff, as they contemplated surviving and thriving amidst a world in crisis. The Past Is Still Alive brings the focus back inwards, with arrangements that are raw, melodies direct and indelible, and lyrics that are personal yet largely rooted in family and community. There are love songs to real characters, locations and mythic figures like Sky Red Hawk (“Buffalo”); the first trans woman Segarra ever met (“Hawkmoon”); queerness and sacred spaces for outsiders and the vulnerable, in the aftermath of the Club Q shooting (“Colossus of Roads”); leaving home behind and discovering oneself on the edge of the world (“Snake Plant”); and short-lived romances and the wisdom gained through chaos (“Vetiver”). Elsewhere, in the self-portraits painted on “Alibi,” “Ogallala,” and other album highlights, Segarra reflects on the land they have traveled, the hardships witnessed, and bravery gained while running away from everything and everyone they knew at age seventeen, hopping freight trains and hitchhiking across the country with a band of street urchins.

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