release date: jan 12, 2009
label: independent
03-02-09 review by: APC

With a banjo, upright bass, accordion, barely audible percussion, steel guitar, and various other instruments (toy piano, saw, fiddle, autoharp), Hurray For The Riff Raff creates a beautiful and eclectic setting for Alynda Lee's sultry and revealing voice to paint pictures of desire, love, and loss. I'm finding myself wanting to be in whatever world she is creating with the songs, mainly because they're beautiful and sad all at once, and because its so honest AND cool. Not too many in the Bywater of New Orleans can truly claim that.

Most of the tunes start with Lee's banjo and her voice, and honestly, that would be enough for some good songs, but the band then starts to creep in, and swirls and clanks around the melody, and brings the songs to a higher and sweeter level. Closer to the recent freak-folk movement than indie rock, and more old-time cabaret than straight folk, It Don't Mean I Don't Love You sets an emotional scene that's hard to get out of. I don't think I'll be able to for a while.

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hurray for the riff raff - "daniella"

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