Ezra Furman by Buck Meek
Ezra Furman will be at SXSW later this month.
Ezra Furman has released a new single today.
Point Me Toward The Real features backing vocals from Shannon Lay and Debbie Neigher, and was recorded with Angel Olsen, Future Islands and Sharon Van Etten cohort John Congleton.
“This is a neo-soul song about getting released from a psychiatric hospital, which has never happened to me,” Furman says. “But really it’s a song about what you do right after abuse, imprisonment, a brush with death. Who do you call when it’s supposedly over? Where do you go? How do you know what you want?”
“We’ve all recently been going through something terrifying. We’ve all made friends with death in the last two years. When I look to the future, I want to know who has my back? Whose back do I have? And what is real, what and who can I rely on? Point me toward the real; there’s no other direction I want to go.”
