Ezra Furman performing in Liverpool (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Not much more than a year on from his last LP Transangelic Exodus, Ezra Furman has unveiled a new album entitled Twelve Nudes which he says is his ‘punk record’.
“We made it in Oakland, quickly,” he continues. “We drank and smoked. Then we made the loud parts louder. I hurt my voice screaming. This was back in 2018, when things were bad in the world. The songs are naked with nothing to hide.”
Out on August 30th, its lead single is Calm Down; “Desperate times make for desperate songs,” Furman says of it. “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.”
Tour dates:
May
28 – Hay on Wye, UK, Hay Festival
29 – Norwich, UK, Waterfront
30 – Sheffield, UK, Foundry
June
2 – London, UK, All Points East Festival
July
21 – Benicassim, ES, Benicassim Festival
23 – Cork, IE, Cyprus Avenue
24 – Dublin, IE, Button Factory
25 – Galway, IE, Galway Festival
28 – Topcliffe, UK, Deer Shed Festival
September
5 – St. Paul, MN, Turf Club
7 – Chicago, IL, Lincoln Hall
8 – Detroit, MI, El Club
9 – Toronto, ON, Lee’s Palace
10 – Montreal, QC, Bar Le Ritz P.D.B.
11 – Cambridge, MA, Sonia
12 – Brooklyn, NY, Warsaw
15 – Philadelphia, PA, Underground Arts
16 – Washington, DC, Union Stage
Nov
16 – Cologne, DE, Luxor
17 – Berlin, DE, Festsaal Kreuzberg
19 – Paris, FR, La Maroquinerie
20 – Brussels, BE, Botanique / Rotonde
21 – Amsterdam, NL, Paradiso Noord
23 – Hamburg, DE, Molotow
24 – Copenhagen, DK, Vega
25 – Gothenburg, SE, Pustervik
26 – Stockholm, SE, Debaser Strand