Hurray for the Riff Raff announces new album The Past Is Still Alive

Hurray for the Riff Raff has announced a new album. On February 23, Alynda Segarra will release The Past Is Still Alive via Nonesuch. The album was produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) and features guest appearances from Conor Oberst, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Anjimile and more. The first single is “Alibi,” which you can hear below.

Segarra said in a statement, “The Past Is Still Alive is an album grappling with time, memory, love and loss, recorded in Durham, NC a month after losing my Father. ‘Alibi’ is a plea, a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose. 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. Addiction separates us. With memories of the Lower East Side in the early 2000s of my childhood, mixed with imagery of the endless West that calls to artists and wanderers.”

The Past Is Still Alive follows 2022’s Life on Earth. We included it on our list of the 50 Best Albums of 2022.

Hurray for the Riff Raff The Past Is Still Alive tracklist:

Alibi
Buffalo
Hawkmoon
Colossus of Roads
Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)
Vetiver
Hourglass
Dynamo
The World Is Dangerous
Ogallala
Kiko Forever

Hurray ror the Riff Raff tour dates:

11/12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Folk Fest
11/19 – Gainesville, FL – Downtown Festival
2/25 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s*
2/27 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell Stage)*
2/28 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall*
2/29 – Washington, DC – Atlantis*
3/1 – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry*
3/3 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios*
3/5 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg*
3/6 – Boston, MA – Sinclair*
3/9 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground*
3/10 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall*
3/12 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s*
3/14 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall*
3/15 – Saint Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar & Hall*
3/21-3/24 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
3/28 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
3/30 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
4/1 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
4/2 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
4/4 – San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room
4/5 – Los Angeles, CA – Belasco
4/6 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
4/7 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
4/9 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
4/10 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
4/12 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips
4/13 – Austin, TX – 3TEN
4/14 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
5/10 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory
5/11 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
5/12 – Glasgow, UK – Mono
5/14 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
5/15 – Birmingham, UK – Castle & Falcon
5/16 – Bristol, UK – Strange Brew
5/17 – London, UK – Electric Brixton
5/19 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
5/20 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
5/21 – Amsterdam, NE – Tolhuistuin
5/23 – Berlin, DE – Privatclub

*w/ NNAMDÏ