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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the folk-blues band is a concept album focuses on a young woman named Navita as she travels through a burning city and learns who she really is.
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- Record Label: ATO
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Folk-Blues
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| Look for you my friend you look for me Baby I'm not too afraid to die i wanna live it all i think abouy it sometimes letely my times been moving... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Mar 13, 2017The Navigator might be full of site-specific anger and yearning, but like its predecessors, it is incredibly easy on the ear. The songs just flow--slinky, sad or elegant in their own ways.
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Mar 15, 2017Her boozy, morning-after croon is still gorgeous, but now there’s elements of Puerto Rican bomba and salsa, son cubano, doo-wop, and even the spoken-word poetry of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe she haunted as a teen. Her band has gone through a variety of lineups, but this one feels like a clean slate.
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Mar 6, 2017[Navita] charts her course through destruction, indifference and the city sounds: doo wop, Lou Reed-y R&R, even indie rock. It's not until she stares clear-eyed at those closest to her that the way is clear: she's to honor her Latin and Caribbean roots in story and sound. [Apr 2017, p.96]
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Mar 6, 2017The question of identity is touched upon throughout the songs here (national, political, gender), but in terms of musical identity, Hurray for the Riff Raff know exactly who they are.
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Mar 8, 2017Augmenting her folksy troubadour style with Latin percussion and an acappella group for that streetcorner-symphony flavour, she effectively expands the notion of Americana to accommodate another cultural strain alongside the usual blues and country influences.
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Mar 24, 2017Their jaunty Americana morphs from something lovely into something utterly essential.
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Mar 15, 2017Segarra taps into lamenting barroom country previously explored on "Life to Save," but uses the lightning-fast drumming of Puerto Rican plena to address the often physical struggle to protect the sanctity of any homeland on "Rican Beach."
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