Ezra Furman has introduced her tenth studio album ‘Goodbye Small Head’ with new single ‘Grand Mal’, in addition to sharing particulars of a UK and North American tour. Discover all the small print under.
The Chicago-born singer-songwriter is because of launch the 12-track file on Might 16 by way of Bella Union, following on from 2022’s ‘All Of Us Flames’. You’ll be able to pre-order/pre-save it right here.
Furman has previewed the forthcoming LP with its cinematic or orchestral lead single, ‘Grand Mal’. The music is accompanied by an Eleanor Petry-directed music video, which is able to premiere at 5pm GMT in the present day (February 13).
To announce ‘Goodbye Small Head’, Furman has penned a prolonged bio concerning the new venture – the place she described it as “an orchestral emo prog-rock file sprinkled with samples”.
The album was recorded in her native Chicago and helmed by her “producer of origin” Brian Deck.
“Goodbye Small Head is the identify of this file. 12 songs, 12 variations on the expertise of utterly shedding management, whether or not by weak point, sickness, mysticism, BDSM, medication, heartbreak or simply dwelling in a sick society with one’s eyes open,” she started.
“These songs are vivid with overwhelm. They’re not about somebody going off the rails, they’re inside that individual’s coronary heart. The songwriting here’s a revision to William Wordsworth’s well-known proclamation that ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overow of highly effective emotions: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity’. I can agree with that, aside from the tranquillity half.”
Furman continued: “This poetry, my poetry, arrived within the midst of the storm. It was written as I teetered towards the sting. (I did the edits as soon as I used to be secure once more.)
“The band and I had had a run of information that have been very communal, very first individual plural. We, us, ours. I used to be making an attempt to exist in and create a shared house with my viewers, make anthems for caring for each other in darkish occasions. However there does come a
time when a girl is left alone in a room to unravel. And also you want music for these occasions too.”
She went on to clarify that the upcoming LP “displays a band reaching a brand new peak of our powers”, including: “If I have been a music journalist, I’d name this an orchestral emo prog-rock file sprinkled with samples. Thank goodness I’m not a music journalist!
“I consider this music as cinematic and intense. A good friend of mine mentioned it seemed like ‘the best film soundtrack of 1997’, and I’m fairly happy with that description. We’ve
included a small string part into eight of the twelve tracks, and are utilizing samples for the primary time – nothing you’d recognise, just a few uncredited singing that Sam discovered on-line, chopped into superbly evocative bits.
“Aside from that, this file options one thing that’s develop into practically an anachronism: a band that’s been enjoying actual devices collectively for over a decade, intuitively in contact with one another as musicians. 4 gamers in a room collectively who know precisely how to reply to each other.”
Furman wrote: “We recorded in Chicago with Brian Deck producing; a return to each my metropolis of origin and my producer of origin, since Deck produced my first rock’n’roll information a few years in the past (Banging Down the Doorways (2007) and Contained in the Human Physique (2008) by Ezra Furman & the Harpoons).
“Indirectly I believe I used to be making an attempt to return to a a lot youthful mindset, when all of the depth and concern and emotion of life was much less mediated by grownup coping mechanisms. When it was all model new with no filter.”
The artist is about to embark on a UK headline tour shortly after releasing ‘Goodbye Small Head’, kicking off with a present at EartH in Hackney, London.
She’ll then play a run of gigs in partnership with file shops Resident and Tough Commerce, earlier than making an look at Bearded Principle 2025.
Furman can be scheduled to move out on an intensive North American tour this yr. Dates on these legs characteristic performances in New York, Los Angeles, San Franciso, Vancouver, Chicago, Portland and Toronto.
You’ll be able to discover ticket particulars right here (UK) and right here (North America). Go to Ezra Furman’s official web site for extra data.
The tracklist for Ezra Furman’s ‘Goodbye Small Head’ is:
1. ‘Grand Mal’
2. ‘Sudden Storm’
3. ‘Soar Out’
4. ‘Energy Of The Moon’
5. ‘You Mustn’t Present Weak spot’
6. ‘Submission’
7. ‘Veil Track’
8. ‘Gradual Burn’
9. ‘You Damage Me I Hate You’
10. ‘Unusual Woman’
11. ‘A World Of Love And Care’
12. ‘I Want The Angel’