crack open a cold one with the boys song

#Crack open a cold one with the boys song cracked

Dressed like a Fabulous Stain on the album’s cover-the inside typography evoking anarcho legends Crass and reading “BLESS ALL BEINGS RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES”-Segarra has, in some sense, circled back to the raw openness of their earliest homespun releases.

They have found a fresh collaborator in indie-rock producer Brad Cook ( Waxahatchee, Bon Iver) and opened a new chapter. But Segarra has never sounded more honest or self-possessed than on Life on Earth. Segarra has made powerful records in the past by working within vernacular traditions, or constructing autofictive characters and concepts, like on 2017’s The Navigator, where they sought to reclaim their Puerto Rican identity. Segarra’s eighth album is titled Life on Earth, seeming to ask, by its final notes: How will you spend yours? They transform their sound with glowing synthesizers and sunstruck hooks to answer this call. Watch the 2021 documentary Takeover-about the NYC chapter of Puerto Rican revolutionary coalition the Young Lords and how they occupied the South Bronx’s Lennox Hospital in 1970, seizing it as “The People’s Hospital”-and when “Pa’lante” soundtracks its final moments you will see not only what art is capable of but what it is for.

#Crack open a cold one with the boys song cracked

The song is cracked open, traversing a continuum of historical struggle that is ongoing.

In that anthem describing the immigrant experience in America, Segarra ferociously called out to those “who had to hide,” who “lost their pride,” to “all who came before,” carrying the fight forward.