Transangelic Exodus Ezra Furman’s second album for Bella Union, is a new landmark for the American singer-songwriter: “not a concept record, but almost a novel, or a cluster of stories on a theme, a combination of fiction and a half-true memoir,” according to its author. “A personal companion for a paranoid road trip. A queer outlaw saga.” The music is as much of an intense, ...(展开全部) Transangelic Exodus Ezra Furman’s second album for Bella Union, is a new landmark for the American singer-songwriter: “not a concept record, but almost a novel, or a cluster of stories on a theme, a combination of fiction and a half-true memoir,” according to its author. “A personal companion for a paranoid road trip. A queer outlaw saga.” The music is as much of an intense, dramatic event, full of brilliant hooks, with an equally evolved approach to recorded sound to match Furman’s narrative vision. In honour of this shift, his backing band has been newly christened: The Boy-Friends are dead, long live The Visions. In other words, the man who embodies the title of his last album Perpetual Motion People is still on the move... Or in the vernacular of the new album, on the run. His musical DNA remains intact – a thrilling, literate form of garage-punk rooted in The Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman and ‘50s rock’n’roll. Standout tracks include the album’s lead single Driving Down To LA, a sparse, but explosive, mix of doo-wop and digital crunch. Another is the haunting Compulsive Liar. Transangelic Exodus addresses another kind of coming out, as Furman addresses his Jewish faith on record much more openly than before, from the shivery ballad God Lifts Up the Lowly (which includes a verse in Hebrew) to the exquisite Psalm 151 and the line “I believe in God but I don't believe we're getting out of this one” in Come Here Get Away From Me, a heady blend of rock’n’roll rumble and ghostly clarinet. Crossing between love, gender, sexuality and religion, and singing in solidarity with the innocent, persecuted, oppressed and threatened, Ezra Furman has soundtracked the current fear and loathing across America like no other, while pushing ahead with his own agenda, always on the move.
Ezra Furman是一名美国犹太音乐家,是一名流性人(Gender Fluid)也就是心理性别认同会随不同时间地点环境而发生改变的一类群体,2006–2011年他组建了自己的第一支乐队Ezra Furman and the Harpoons,发行了三张质量不错的专辑但知名度并不高,11年合约到期解散后自己发行了一张...
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When my darling grew wings And the goverment came after us We lived in a red Camaro When your body's illegal And the people sworn to protect you Refuse to protect you One may have to re-draw the map That once represented home And perhaps this was always wa...
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0 有用 FranGitano 2019-02-20 23:17:27
High A-.
1 有用 送你一杯乙硫醇 2018-04-05 11:17:52
(A-)乍听上去没什么奇怪的,仔细听来,仿古的时候动了不少心思,特意用了让人误解的音色,再加上低保真的嗓音,有点看cult片的感觉。
0 有用 easycure 2018-02-09 10:05:00
虽然媒体评分高的可怕,NME甚至给了满分 专辑确实也不错,但感觉并不如上一张EP
1 有用 Huifen9990 2018-02-16 11:29:40
猶如萬花筒,精彩!
1 有用 你的地缚灵 2018-12-20 23:03:04
3.8
0 有用 DAKE 2019-10-28 12:48:40
可爱怪异
0 有用 Taecomme 2021-10-07 10:31:30
driving down to la,8.5/10
0 有用 momo 2023-08-26 21:39:17 四川
ezra furman恰到好处的脆弱感就是在听到他唱i sit on the porch and i hope it don't rain again时我会很想i am on the porch beside him and hold him tightly
0 有用 frøze 2020-10-18 19:33:30
没有目的地的单程票
0 有用 路西雅 2020-09-23 02:18:31
真的好喜欢Ezra Furman这种genuine vulnerability