Best New Bands » My Dearest Darkest Neighbor https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Hurray For The Riff Raff – My Dearest Darkest Neighbor https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-my-dearest-darkest-neighbor/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-my-dearest-darkest-neighbor/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:39:00 +0000 Why do the blues endure? Generation after generation, those sad songs are recycled. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s (mostly) covers album My Dearest Darkest Neighbor answers that question. The blues endure because the human condition knows loneliness, morbidity, abandonment, heartbreak, and so on.  The vulnerable songs covered on the album honor these phenomena. It does this by

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