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EZRA FURMAN – ” Twelve Nudes “

Posted: February 13, 2020 in MUSIC
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Like a lot of people, Ezra Furman has been alarmed by the “broken world,” as he calls it, that has emerged over the past few years. It shows in his music. Though the Oakland singer has long channeled his disaffection into his songs, he’s never done it with as much immediacy as on Twelve Nudes. Furman’s latest is the rapid-fire follow-up to his 2018 album, Transangelic Exodus, and in many ways, it’s the jagged flip-side. Though Transangelic Exodus was also a reaction to the regressive shitstorm swirling outward from Washington D.C., the album had a certain polish. By contrast, Twelve Nudes has a punk edge that is chaotic and raw, made in a hurry with a first-thought, best-thought sensibility that sprays psychic shrapnel in every direction. It’s also catchy as hell.

Though Twelve Nudes is certainly a political album, it’s rooted in Furman’s emotional reaction to politics, which makes these 11 songs more personal than polemical. It’s a brash come-on from a singer with enough confidence to say what’s on his mind, and the talent to express it in songs you want to listen to over and over. Twelve Nudes is loud, sometimes sarcastic, often pointed and invariably entertaining. The album is the work of an artist with a keen sense of his own capabilities, and it’s a fitting soundtrack to a world in turmoil.

‘Twelve Nudes’ by Ezra Furman, released 30th August 2019 via Bella Union

EZRA FURMAN – ” Les Inrocks ” Session

Posted: February 5, 2020 in MUSIC
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Ezra Furman delivered a powerful acoustic live set for Les Inrocks featuring his song “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend”, which appeared on his latest album “Twelve Nudes”. Installed on a red sofa in the privacy of the Gibson showroom, Ezra drops a performance on edge by fixing the right lens in the lens. The year was busy for the artist, between the promo and the concerts surrounding the release of his latest album, and at the same time the composition and recording of the super soundtrack for the Netflix event series, Sex Education , whose second season came out a few days ago.

Moreover, Ezra Furman announced in a press release the January 24th release of the OST album in digital. Nineteen new tracks will be available – Every Feeling is already on Youtube. Read also: Ezra Furman: rage and spirituality in his fifth disc “Twelve Nudes” “As a fan of many high school comedies such as The Breakfast Club and 10 Things I Hate About You, I understood how entertaining and emotional music can be. I wanted to take up the challenge, ”he said in the press release.

If the soundtrack is so beautiful, it is because the producers trust the singer-songwriter: “We want you to be for us what Simon & Garfunkel were for The Winner”, they would have said to Furman.

‘Every Feeling’ is by Ezra Furman and features in the hit Netflix series ‘Sex Education’.

EZRA FURMAN – ” I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend / Evening Prayer “

Posted: July 15, 2019 in MUSIC
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Our new song and video, “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend,” has arrived! Dedicated to trans people everywhere, it is a song very dear to my heart, the one ballad on our forthcoming record “Twelve Nudes” (due out august 30th preorder it now here https://www.ezrafurman.com/pre-order jabber jabber clang clang)

This video was a joy to make. Directed by Alix Spence, choreography by Sarah Prinz, and dancing by the delightful Brandon Mathis (red) and Jobel Medina (blue), and all kinda of other help from many other people. Everyone involved is so good at what they do. I think this might be my favorite music video we’ve ever made. It comes out tomorrow. “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend,” a song of transgender longing, track 7 on Twelve Nudes which by the way comes out August 30 and you can preorder it there’s a link in our Instagram bio. Thanks a million everyone who worked on this vid with me. It was such a fun and oddly empowering process. Many blessings.

‘I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend’ is taken from the album ‘Twelve Nudes’ by Ezra Furman, released 30th August 2019 via Bella Union Records.

As any doo-wop-type song should, this one has a B-side, also out today: it’s called “Evening Prayer”
and it’s available on all the streaming services  Also from “Twelve Nudes,” it is perhaps even dearer to my heart. It’s a furiously spiritual song calling for us to throw our whole souls into the fight for economic and climate justice.

‘Evening Prayer’ is also taken from the album ‘Twelve Nudes’ by Ezra Furman, released 30th August 2019 via Bella Union Records.

Thank you all for your support.
-Ezra

EZRA FURMAN – ” Twelve Nudes “

Posted: May 22, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The perpetually underrated indie-rock mainstay Ezra Furman has shared the lead single from his latest album release“Twelve Nudes”, due out August. 30th. It’s accompanied by a colorfully macabre music video that visualizes the song’s panic attack-driven narrative, as Furman dances, falls and smokes through the anxiety.

As is typically the case with Furman’s songwriting, “Calm Down” (aka “I Should Not Be Alone”) just shreds. Furman has always been able to bridge this gap between pop-rock and garage meltdowns with a particular punk-rock sensibility; the immediately laid-back and groovy bass line that kicks the song off paves the way for an absolute ripper of a bridge that finds Furman yelling at the listener to calm down.

It’s almost impossible to calm down while listening to the song, though—this thing rocks. The video, animated by frequent Furman collaborator Beth Jeans Houghton, matches the breakneck pace of the track, using vibrant colors to underscore the cognitive dissonance between feeling pretty on the outside and like you’re on the verge of a meltdown on the inside. There’s dancing eyeballs, demon babies, fornicating dogs and all sorts of other psychedelic imagery. “Calm Down” is over way sooner that you’ll want it to be,

That catchy mentality seems to pervade the rest of Twelve Nudes, which Furman says will be among his punkiest, most political songwriting. Furman says of its lead single in a statement:

Desperate times make for desperate songs. I wrote this in the summer of 2018, a terrible time. It’s the sound of me struggling to admit that I’m not okay with the current state of human civilization, in which bad men crush us into submission. Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.

Twelve Nudes is inspired in equal parts by the legendary punk-rocker Jay Reatard and the poet/essayist Anne Carson, whose work inspired the album’s title. “Anne had these visions, or meditations, to deal with the intense pain in her life, which she calls ‘nudes,’” Furman says. “So, my album is called Twelve Nudes.”

The record is produced by John Congleton, whose recent work with Sharon Van Etten rather impressed. Furman will be backed by Sam Durkes, Jorgen Jorgensen and Ben Joseph on this record.

Official music video for ‘Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone’ by Ezra Furman. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Twelve Nudes’ out 30th August via Bella Union Records.