Alynda Segarra and firm showcase “Alibi,” “Buffalo,” and “Hawkmoon” from acclaimed album
Hurray for the Riff Raff dropped by CBS Mornings’ studio to carry out three tracks from their new album The Previous Is Nonetheless Alive for “Saturday Periods.”
For the mini-concert, singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra — who makes use of they/them pronouns — delivered the primary three songs from the lately launched LP, “Alibi,” “Buffalo,” and “Hawkmoon,” accompanied by NNAMDÏ on bass.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Segarra broke down The Previous Is Nonetheless Alive, an album knowledgeable by grief, just like the demise of Segarra’s father and, as on “Alibi,” a childhood good friend who had change into hooked on heroin.
“It’s straight-up simply being like, how do I presumably persuade the listener that they should dwell?” Segarra stated of the monitor. “And likewise recognizing I can’t persuade any person of that. Or the one individual I can truly persuade is myself.”
“Hawkmoon” is concerning the extravagant Miss Jonathan, the primary transgender girl Segarra met. “It’s my means of attempting to create this memorial to her, although I don’t even know the place she is,” Segarra instructed Rolling Stone.
The Previous Is Nonetheless Alive is Hurray for the Riff Raff’s first album since 2022’s Life on Earth, which tackled topics like sexual abuse and the local weather disaster. On the brand new album, Segarra as an alternative seemed inward. “With previous albums, I felt this strain to be very hopeful, and to offer folks hope, and it began to essentially make me uncomfortable,” Segarra stated. “I needed to free myself of that position, and say that issues are gonna must collapse for us to construct one thing new.”
Hurray for the Riff Raff is at present on the highway in assist of The Previous Is Nonetheless Alive, together with stops at New Orleans Jazz Fest and a mid-summer North American leg with Norah Jones.
