Let’s talk about Ezra Furman for a minute. He’s an idiosyncratic, Chicago-grown, San Francisco-residing songwriter who creates collections of songs that, on the surface, don’t sound like they belong together. He’ll spray horns on a guitar-punk tune or drop brassy sounds on top of acoustic rhythms to achieve a kind of throwback (but not contrived) sound. Furman’s latest single, “Lousy Connection,” continues that by diving fully into unabashed doo-wop, with twinkly piano chords and bellowing sax notes coloring the edges. It’s a telling taste of his upcoming album, “Perpetual Motion People” , which Furman says was created by and for “people who can never truly settle.” What we’ve heard so far is good, and the fact that it is good raises a question: Are the ’50s the new ’80s? Will doo-wop and rockabilly cycle back into fashion in the later 2010s? While we wait to find out, Furman’s got us covered.
The Fat Angel Sings 