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Small Town Heroes

Hurray For The Riff Raff

Small Town Heroes

Fifth album from the Americana group led by Brooklyn born, New Orleans-settled banjo player Alynda Lee Segarra

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7.9

Label
ATO Records
UK Release date
31/03/2014
US Release date
11/02/2014
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  1. 10.0 |   The Observer

    Small Town Heroes may mourn victims of violence but it is emphatically a record stuffed with good times
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  2. 9.0 |   Uncut

    A mission statement that confirms Hurray For The Riff Raff as standard-bearers for a new, forward-thinking generation of roots musicians. Print edition only

  3. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    One of the best American roots albums you’ll hear all year
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  4. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    One of the most confident and fresh Americana records this year
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  5. 8.0 |   The Music

    In these hands the music of the past has a bright future indeed
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

    The country folk roots are earthly present, but old-time tropes are given contemporary settings. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   The FT

    There are echoes of Michelle Shocked in both Segarra’s trajectory and languorous voice
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  8. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    On a palette of gentle acoustic blues, Segarra’s voice has real soul
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  9. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Its singer has found a home and sense of being for her voice – a voice capable and deserving of a population larger than the album’s title
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  10. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Segarra’s music is spare and elegant on songs built around her voice and acoustic guitar, and fleshed out with fiddle, piano, banjo, understated percussion and occasional glimmers of quiet electric guitar
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  11. 7.8 |   Pitchfork

    Segarra proves herself one of the most compelling stylists in a folk revival full of suspicious acts either too beholden to tradition or too uncritical to make much of it
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  12. 7.0 |   All Music

    Contemporary hobo-folk anthems that play fast and loose with genre tropes without losing the essence that makes them universal
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  13. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Holds enough versatility and charm to captivate even the most jaded soul
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  14. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Segarra's supple, intimate vocals are about more than conjuring a musical past – she clearly wants to shape the future, too
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  15. 6.0 |   Mojo

    She sings with quietly commanding charm. Print edition only

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