The past is still alive

"Segarra har (...) holdt fast i folk-sanger-dyden at fortælle den lille persons og de undertrykte folks historie, og selvom det seneste udspil er det meste ligeud rockede og tilgængelige album fra deres hånd - med lige knap 37 minutters spilletid er det en kort og ligetil lytteoplevelse - betyder det ikke, at der ikke stadig er en hel del på hjerte i teksterne".

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"The music is deceptively complex in its simplicity. The individual tracks always carry us to places we didn't know we were heading. Hurray for the Riff Raff's Walt Whitmanian vision suggests that they speak for everyone when they sing of themselves. Their songs may be peopled with the homeless and dispossessed, the sexually transgressive and economically dispossessed, immigrants, and the native-born. Segarra understands that we are all part of the same world and share the same past. The past may be alive, but that doesn't make us zombies. We have always been this way".

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"'The Past Is Still Alive' feels bathed in sunlight, as if recorded at golden hour and mixed during a sunrise. It doesn't just sound like wild west Americana - it feels that way, drawn from a life's worth of experience and adoration of the genre. It's the album that Segarra's been building toward since they first picked up a guitar".

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"A welcome return to the looser roots sound of earlier albums. The likes of "Hawkmoon" and "Snake Plant" are classic story-telling songs on which [Alynda Segarra] sound like a punk-inflected Gillian Welch jamming with The Band in Woodstock, although they've lost none of their sly pleasure in throwing the odd curveball and upping the ante: on "Vetiver" they almost morph into Suzi Quatro".