“Living in the City” by Hurray For The Riff Raff

"Living in the City" arrived on March 10, 2017, as part of The Navigator, the sixth album from American indie rockers Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Alynda Mariposa Segarra wrote it alone, words and music. Paul Butler of the Bees produced the ATO release, cut during 2016 at New York's Electric Lady Studios and at Panoramic House out in West Marin.

The Navigator took a detour on purpose. Once Small Town Heroes had won the band a wider audience, Segarra passed on a quick follow-up and headed to Puerto Rico to reconnect with their roots, seeing what the debt crisis and ongoing environmental damage had done to its communities and how the culture kept flourishing anyway. Those travels shaped much of the album, a record built around a storyline that takes on runaway gentrification, and critics welcomed it.

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