Alynda Segarra has announced their next Hurray for the Riff Raff album: The Past Is Still Alive is out February 23 via Nonesuch. Listen to the new album’s first song, “Alibi,” below.
The Past Is Still Alive follows Hurray for the Riff Raff’s 2022 album, Life on Earth. Segarra worked on the new LP with producer Brad Cook and a whole host of collaborators, including vocalists Anjimile, Conor Oberst, and S.G. Goodman, as well as musicians Libby Rodenbough, Matt Douglas, Meg Duffy, Mike Mogis, Phil Cook, and Yan Westerlund.
Segarra recorded The Past Is Still Alive the month after the death of her father, and they described “Alibi” as “a plea, a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose.” They continued, “It’s a song to myself, to my Father, almost fooling myself because I know what’s done is done. But it feels good to beg. A reckoning with time and memory. The song is exhausted with loving someone so much it hurts.”
Read last year’s interview “Hurray for the Riff Raff on the Radical Mind Shift That Led to New Album Life on Earth.”
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The Past Is Still Alive:
01 Alibi
02 Buffalo
03 Hawkmoon
04 Colossus of Roads
05 Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)
06 Vetiver
07 Hourglass
08 Dynamo
09 The World Is Dangerous
10 Ogallala
11 Kiko Forever
Hurray for the Riff Raff:
11-12 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Folk Fest
11-19 Gainesville, FL - Downtown Festival
02-25 New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s *
02-27 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Hell Stage) *
02-28 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall *
02-29 Washington, D.C. - The Atlantis *
03-01 Philadelphia, PA - Foundry *
03-03 Woodstock, NY - Levon Helm Studios *
03-05 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *
03-06 Boston, MA - Sinclair *
03-09 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *
03-10 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall *
03-12 Columbus, OH - Skully’s *
03-14 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall *
03-15 Saint Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall *
03-21-24 Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
03-28 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
03-30 Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-01 San Francisco, CA - August Hall
04-02 Sacramento, CA - Harlow’s
04-04 San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room
04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Belasco
04-06 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet’s
04-07 Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
04-09 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
04-10 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
04-12 Fort Worth, TX - Tulips
04-13 Austin, TX - 3Ten
04-14 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
05-10 Dublin, Ireland - Button Factory
05-11 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
05-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Mono
05-14 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
05-15 Birmingham, England - Castle & Falcon
05-16 Bristol, England - Strange Brew
05-17 London, England - Electric Brixton
05-19 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
05-20 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
05-21 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Tolhuistuin
05-23 Berlin, Germany - Privatclub
* with Nnamdï
