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10.0
93859
10.0 |
God Is In The TV
This isn’t just one the finest albums of 2017, it may even be the greatest release of the entire decade. Simply phenomenal
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10.0
93891
10.0 |
The Digital Fix
Really does leave you with a hope that the world can move onward, forward, to something better
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10.0
93948
10.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s such a New York album but reminds me in spirit of PJ Harvey’s war album Let England Shake: male folly brought home in female voice
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10.0
93981
10.0 |
The Observer
The songs just flow – slinky, sad or elegant in their own ways
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9.0
93863
9.0 |
Uncut
Segarra is skilled at identifying the shifting goalposts that immigrants have to live by, and staring past them. Print edition only
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9.0
93861
9.0 |
The Music
A cinematic masterwork in both scope and execution
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8.9
93860
8.9 |
AU Review
It’s powerful, personal, occasionally wrenching stuff, and it’s beautifully constructed and intricately written as well. The Navigator is the sort of thing people are going to need heading into 2017
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8.4
93998
8.4 |
Earbuddy
If you previously thought of Hurray for the Riff Raff as just a rootsy rock band, The Navigator takes the project in an interesting new direction
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8.1
94090
8.1 |
Pitchfork
A folk concept album from a Nuyorican runaway who grew up obsessed with West Side Story before being liberated by Bikini Kill
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8.0
94132
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Needs time but repays handsomely
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8.0
94402
8.0 |
NME
Hurray for the Riff Raff indeed
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8.0
94045
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A major sea-change for Hurray For The Riff Raff
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8.0
94054
8.0 |
American Songwriter
A major leap forward for an artist whose previous work now seems like a warm-up for the dizzying heights The Navigator strives for, and often achieves
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8.0
93858
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The Navigator evocatively captures the essence of the streets of New York's increasingly gentrified outer boroughs
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8.0
94023
8.0 |
Q
It's a mighty, empowering antidote to 2017's many spiritual agonies. Print edition only
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8.0
93951
8.0 |
The Guardian
Latin Americana and flamethrower polemics
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8.0
93958
8.0 |
The FT
The Navigator marks a new step, ditching fiddles and banjos for another kind of roots music
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8.0
93916
8.0 |
The Independent
She effectively expands the notion of Americana to accommodate another cultural strain alongside the usual blues and country influences
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8.0
93939
8.0 |
All Music
The Navigator is nothing if it isn't a bold risk, a record that attempts to carve out a new kind of Americana, one where the past informs the present instead of the present preserving the past - and one where the political is personal, too
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8.0
93862
8.0 |
The Skinny
The 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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8.0
93864
8.0 |
Mojo
She charts her course through destruction, indifference and the city sounds: doo wop, Lou Reed-y R&R, even indie rock
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8.0
93874
8.0 |
PopMatters
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s music inspires one to look inward and find strength and to enjoy life in the process
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7.7
94718
7.7 |
Paste Magazine
As an album, The Navigator’s musicality—both the melodic nature of its songs and its musical-like structure—highlight Segarra’s raw talent and growth as an artist
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7.0
94743
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
The Navigator broadens the scope of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s folk to encompass influences from street musical and beyond
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7.0
93895
7.0 |
Exclaim
Both a pleasure to listen to and a rallying cry to rise up
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7.0
94039
7.0 |
Under The Radar
There is much to love in it for Hurray for the Riff Raff fans, both new and old
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