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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kevinhandran love it! ditto to everything already said. lots of good melody, a nice pace to it, great songs. a beautiful voice accented nicely by the slide guitar, horns, strings & vocal harmony's. can't stop listening to it.numerous favorite songs. Favorite track: Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive).

Ian Wallace Can’t stop listening to Ogallala. Whole album so great

wahwahnyc Powerful writing, brilliant musicianship - all you can ask for, and hard won. Sometimes the stars align. Favorite track: Ogallala.

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1.	Alibi 02:48	buy track
2.	Buffalo 03:42	buy track
3.	Hawkmoon 03:42	buy track
4.	Colossus of Roads 02:45	buy track
5.	Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive) 04:07	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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released February 23, 2024

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Hurray For The Riff Raff New Orleans, Louisiana

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May 10

The Button Factory

Dublin, Ireland
May 11

The Deaf Institute

Manchester, UK
May 12

Warehouse, SWG3

Glasgow, UK
May 14

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK
May 15

The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

Birmingham, UK
May 17

Electric Brixton

Brixton, UK
May 19

La Maroquinerie

Paris, France
May 20

Le Botanique

Brussels, Belgium
May 21

Tolhuistuin

Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 23

Hole 44

Berlin, Germany
May 24

Caja Mágica

Madrid, Spain
Jul 11

El Club Detroit

Detroit, MI
Jul 19

Falconwood Park

Bellevue, NE
Jul 22

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Vail, CO
Jul 23

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Morrison, CO
Jul 25

Sandy Amphitheater

Sandy, UT
Jul 26

Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden

Boise, ID
Jul 27

Wine Country Amphitheater

Walla Walla, WA
Jul 29

Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheater

Seattle, WA
Jul 30

Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Vancouver, BC
Aug 1

Cuthbert Amphitheater

Eugene, OR
Aug 3

The Masonic

San Francisco, CA
Aug 14

Future Yard

Birkenhead, UK
Aug 15

Metronome

Nottingham, UK

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