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Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator Album Review


Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra and band) hail from Louisiana, via The Bronx, and are often described as Americana to help pigeon hole and assign their music for a world which likes order (and for those of us that may not be able to just listen and appreciate without labelling). It's an easy thing to do, it avoids confusion and gives us a sense of security and place. I think for The Navigator though you can pretty much throw that notion out of the window because there is no cajoling this album into any musical corral.

Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator Album Review

'The Navigator', Hurray For The Riff Raff's sixth studio album, is a twelve track exploration into Alynda's roots. Judging by the album alone these would appear to be strikingly disperate. Yes there are the obvious bluesy hued folk songs of the 'deep south' ('Halfway There'/'Life To Save') but there is oh so much more. As well as a Country lilt to some of the songs there's also a sassiness and swagger more akin to the most recent releases of Angel Olsen or Mitski.

Two of the singles lifted from the album, 'Hungry Ghost' and 'Rican Beach', may share the individual vocal nuances that Seggara wraps around the arrangements but are closer to Olsen or Bonar on 'Hungry Ghost' and even Carlos Santana on the salsa shimmying 'Rican Beach'. On the piano lead 'Fourteen Floors' Seggara takes on a tender stance delivering up a song with echoes of Tu Fawning's master piece 'Apples And Oranges'. All three display a range and mixture of styles that Hurray For The Riff Raff are clearly happy to inhabit. Where ever I lay my hat and all that.

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