8.4
Avg Score
9
Opinions
#711
All Time
10
Tracks
“Alynda Segarra returns triumphantly to folk influences for their eighth album, with radical honesty and an explorative focus on solidarity.”
“The Past Is Still Alive is a vivid portrait of Hurray For The Riff Raff”
“Alynda Segarra’s fantastic new album revives the folky textures of previous records to grapple with American myths and tragedies. It’s part folk-punk memoir, part spiritual invocation.”
“As any history student knows, the present is just the past playing out in real time. There’s a sense of time looping in Alynda Segarra’s ninth album, in which the New Orleans-based singer-songwriter revisits their saturated backstory to remember loved ones, honour fellow travellers and “watch the world burn” with a tear in their eye. Segarra’s father died shortly before recording; his voicemails ”
“On their latest album 'The Past Is Still Alive,' Alynda Segarra integrates their many musical selves into a brilliant singer-songwriter record.”
“Even before the stetson hit Beyoncé’s head, it was clear that country was the next big musical movement. As Kacey Musgraves continues to pull Grammys, Morgan Wallen keeps cancellation valiantly at bay and Luke Combs’s “Fast Car” cover dominates radio and Spotify playlists, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the Wild West: Hell, even Lana Del Rey is rumoured to be getting in on the action with th”
