Ezra Furman Announces New Album 'Twelve Nudes', Shares First Single Calm Down
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Written by Helen Payne
Photo: Jessica Lehrmann
Ezra Furman has announced a new album.
‘Twelve Nudes’ is due to arrive on August 30 via Bella Union, after the alt-pop singer’s UK and Ireland headline shows and festival slots over the summer.
Furman said of the follow up to 2018’s ‘Transangelic Exodus’:
“I knew I wanted I make this album quickly and not spend time thinking how to play the songs. 'Twelve Nudes' is a ‘body’ more than a ‘mind’ record - more animal than intellectual, And by affirming negativity, it gives you energy, to reject stuff. There’s more space for positivity. The record is political, but it offers an emotional reaction rather than being specific or partisan.
"One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger. I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.”
They've also shared the video for the record’s first cut, Calm Down. A crunchy, fast-paced rock track, the heavy guitars emphasise the gravelly tone of Furman’s vocals, and contrast them with vibrant and psychedelic cartoon images directed and animated by frequent collaborator Beth Jeans Houghton, otherwise known as Du Blonde.
Furman plays headline shows in Norwich, Sheffield, Cork, Dublin and Galway over the coming months, as well as festival slots at Hay Festival, All Points East, Benicassim and Deer Shed Festival prior to touring North America and Europe in the autumn.
‘Twelve Nudes’ tracklist:
1. Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone
2. Evening Prayer aka Justice
3. Transition From Nowhere to Nowhere
4. Rated R Crusaders
5. Trauma
6. Thermometer
7. I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
8. Blown
9. My Teeth Hurt
10. In America
11. What Can You Do But Rock’n’Roll
Ezra Furman Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed May 29 2019 - NORWICH UEA The Waterfront
Thu May 30 2019 - SHEFFIELD Foundry Sheffield SU
Tue July 23 2019 - CORK Cyprus Avenue
Wed July 24 2019 - DUBLIN Button Factory
Sun July 28 2019 - TOPCLIFFE Baldersby Park
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