View basket “American Primitive” has been added to your basket. Life On Earth Hurray For The Riff Raff SKU: 0075597912890 Barcode: 0075597912890 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 18th February 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The Nonesuch debut of Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra), LIFE ON EARTH, is a departure for the Bronx-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter. Its eleven new “nature punk” tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux – songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours North America this spring, beginning March 19 in Atlanta and continuing through April 20 in Nashville, with stops in Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, among others. International tour dates will be announced shortly. For her eighth full-length album, Segarra (they/she) drew inspiration from The Clash, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bad Bunny, and the author of Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown. Recorded during the pandemic, Life on Earth was produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby). Life on Earth’s first single, ‘RHODODENDRON’, is about “finding rebellion in plant life. Being called by the natural world and seeing the life that surrounds you in a way you never have. A mind expansion. A psychedelic trip. A spiritual breakthrough. Learning to adapt, and being open to the wisdom of your landscape. Being called to fix things in your own backyard, your own community,” says Segarra. Of the ‘Rhododendron’ video, which was directed by New Orleans-based artist Lucia Honey, Segarra says: “It is really far out and fun. I got this bodysuit that just looks like the inside of the human body. It looks like you’re skinless. It’s in a scene where I’m playing to an audience of plants. Just really absurd, but I put that suit on and I was like man, this feels really good. It feels like, ‘This is who I am. Let’s just take the skin off.’ “It reminds me a little bit of Kids in the Hall,” they continue. “With this ‘Rhododendron’ shoot, something clicked in me where I was like, ‘All I have to do is be myself.’ I had been thinking that I had to be something bigger than myself. I felt like I was just never quite making the mark and then something clicked where I was like, ‘I just gotta be me. I could do that. I could show up and be me. And if people don’t like it, then I don’t know what to fucking tell them.’ It was like a brain shift of, ‘Oh, this can be fun. It doesn’t have to be suffering.’ With so many videos and photo shoots before, it really felt like suffering. I felt so uncomfortable being perceived. I didn’t know who I was.” Honey adds: “We wanted to create something surreal, playful, and saturated that indulged heavily in the aesthetic of the early ‘90s. Alynda and I had many overlapping visual and philosophical references which sparked the initial collaboration. We wanted to make this video an homage to Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse trilogy but as a nature documentary crossover. I came across Araki’s work as a queer teenager, and he’s always been a big inspiration. Sex, blood, punk rock, camp, etc. “We live in a moment where the future is bleaker and more unknown than ever, so there becomes a deep comfort in nostalgia and reliving the past. Through our talks, I realised Alynda’s new album touches on many of these same subjects, but perhaps in reverse; running from a past that is always haunting you. Shifting into a more refined self/identity through confronting one’s trauma and baggage. It was easy to reach collaborative synergy for this video project because we’re both interested in tackling similar issues.” Alynda Segarra was born and raised in the Bronx, which they left at the age of seventeen, running away from everything and everyone they knew, hopping freight trains or hitchhiking across the country in the company of a band of street urchins. Segarra moved to New Orleans in 2007 and formed two bands: Dead Man’s Street Orchestra and Hurray for the Riff Raff. In 2015, Segarra decamped to Nashville, then to New York, to make her most recent album, 2016’s critically praised The Navigator, an ambitious and fully realized concept album that was her quest to reclaim her Puerto Rican identity. Segarra’s previous records as Hurray for the Riff Raff are Crossing the Rubicon (EP, 2007), It Don’t Mean I Don’t Love You (2008), Young Blood Blues (2010), Hurray for the Riff Raff (2011), Look Out Mama (2012), My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (2013), and Small Town Heroes (2014). ‘A major step forward for one of today’s most vital artists. The first great album of 2022.’ – Uncut ‘[Alynda Segarra] has a voice rooted in history, making music to change the present… the voice of the future.’ – NPR ‘In an ever-desensitized world, Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is skilled at making violence human.’ – Pitchfork Artist Hurray For The Riff Raff Genre Americana / Country Label Nonesuch Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Wolves Pierced Arrows Pointed At The Sun Rhododendron Jupiter's Dance Life On Earth Nightqueen Precious Cargo Rosemary Tears Saga Kin Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Hurray For The Riff Raff and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Hurray For The Riff Raff The Past Is Still Alive Americana / Country | Nonesuch | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hurray For The Riff Raff The Past Is Still Alive £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597902587 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hurray For The Riff Raff Look Out Mama Americana / Country | Loose Music | 1LP Released 8th May 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hurray For The Riff Raff Look Out Mama £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP200 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hurray For The Riff Raff Hurray For The Riff Raff Americana / Country | Loose Music | 1LP Released 8th May 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hurray For The Riff Raff Hurray For The Riff Raff £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP191 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hurray For The Riff Raff Small Town Heroes Americana / Country | ATO | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 27th March 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hurray For The Riff Raff Small Town Heroes £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: ATO SKU: ATO0212LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 27th March 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shelby Lynne Tears, Lies & Alibis Americana / Country | Everso | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th November 2010 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shelby Lynne Tears, Lies & Alibis £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Everso SKU: EVER170 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th November 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Burton Dear Departed Americana / Country | Partisan Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th July 2023 £18.00 - 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