Hurray For The Riff‘s Alynda Segarra has announced that the new album The Past Is Still Alive will be released on February 23rd on the Nonesuch Records label.

The first song to come from the album is the warmly strummed and melodic country strains of ‘Alibi’, suggesting more of an Americana feel than recent releases. It’s a great track, with something of a Wilco or Big Thief feel in its relaxed dynamics and the seamless blend of organic and electric instrumentation.

Segarra worked on the new LP with producer Brad Cook and a whole host of collaborators, including vocalists Anjimile, Conor Oberst, and S.G. Goodman, as well as musicians Libby Rodenbough, Matt Douglas, Meg Duffy, Mike Mogis, Phil Cook, and Yan Westerlund.

Segarra recorded The Past Is Still Alive the month after the death of her father, and they described “Alibi” as “a plea, a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose.” They continued, “It’s a song to myself, to my Father, almost fooling myself because I know what’s done is done. But it feels good to beg. A reckoning with time and memory. The song is exhausted with loving someone so much it hurts.”

The video was directed, produced, and edited by Eric Stafford.