Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) detailed a new album, The Past Is Still Alive, due out on February 23 via Nonesuch. Segarra also shared the single, “Alibi,” along with a music video.
The follow up to Hurray for the Riff Raff’s 2022 album, Life on Earth, Brad Cook produced The Past Is Still Alive with mixing from Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis. The record sees contributions from Mogis’ Bright Eyes bandmate Conor Oberst along with S.G. Goodman, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Phil Cook, Anjimile and more.
Segarra spoke about the new album and song:
“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.”
Watch the music video for “Alibi,” directed by Eric Stafford, below:
