The Navigator

by Hurray for the Riff Raff

The Navigator cover art

Alynda Segarra structures this highly ambitious concept album around a semi-autobiographical protagonist, Navita, journeying through a gentrifying, dystopian city. The record completely reinvents the band's traditional folk sound, integrating heavy Latin percussion, spoken-word poetry, and theatrical, David Bowie-esque rock arrangements. It is a profoundly moving, fiercely political celebration of Puerto Rican heritage and marginalized survival.

Genres

  • Folk Rock
  • Singer-Songwriter
  • Americana

Tracklist

  1. Entrance
  2. Living In The City
  3. Hungry Ghost
  4. Life To Save
  5. Nothing's Gonna Change That Girl
  6. The Navigator
  7. Halfway There
  8. Rican Beach
  9. Fourteen Floors
  10. Settle
  11. Pa'lante
  12. Finale