7.9
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#5,228
All Time
10
Tracks
“The band’s sixth LP demands more seats at the table. It’s a powerful folk concept album from a Nuyorican runaway who grew up obsessed with West Side Story before being liberated by Bikini Kill.”
“Hurray For The Riff Raff are one of those bands who’ve gone about being quietly spectacular for the past decade or so, never quite troubling the mainstream but ploughing on regardless. And thank goodness for that, because here, on their sixth album, their jaunty Americana morphs from something lovely into something utterly essential. Fronted by the majestic Alynda Segarra, theirs is a music that ”
“A concept album about identity and cultural theft, ‘The Navigator’ marks a major sea-change for Hurray For The Riff Raff. The New Orleans-based outfit have been mining the folk-blues scene since they first appeared in 2007. For their sixth release, however, the music and the lyrics are strongly influenced by Alynda Segarra’s Puerto Rican heritage. ‘Life To Save’ forms a bridge with their past, w”
