The Navigator
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.
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On her previous five albums as Hurray for the Riff Raff, singer/songwriter Alynda Segarra subscribed to an audacious, far-reaching definition of Americana, but she's never been as ambitious as she is on 2017's The Navigator.
Questions of identity are central to The Navigator, but in terms of musical identity, Hurray for the Riff Raff know exactly who they are.
One of the goals of Hurray for the Riff Raff's lead singer Alynda Segarra is remaking folk music for the politics and desires of the current...
Alynda Segarra, aka Hurray for the Riff Raff, returns to her Bronx roots in The Navigator.
Alynda Segarra draws on her Puerto Rican roots with a genre-bending album of anger, yearning and songs that just flow
The album evocatively captures the essence of the streets of New York’s increasingly gentrified outer boroughs.