‘Ezra Furman releases a new single, “Book Of Our Names,” out today on ANTI-/Bella Union. This song follows last month’s single, “Point Me Toward The Real,” Furman’s first solo release since 2019’s Twelve Nudes and her stint soundtracking Netflix’s hit show Sex Education. “Book Of Our Names” is sparse but deeply emotive, with Furman’s voice guiding through the pulsing guitars. ‘
‘Ezra Furman says new single “Book of Our Names” is “what it feels like to live together under an empire that doesn’t value your lives. I sing it as a Jew and as a trans woman, knowing well the stakes and consequences of being part of a hated population. But it is a protest song intended for use by any movement for collective survival and freedom.’
‘ Ezra Furman’s latest song title, “Book Of Our Names,” might sound familiar — that’s because the indie rocker’s newest song is inspired by the Hebrew title for the Bible’s Book of Exodus.
Furman said the track, released Monday, is “a protest song intended for use by any movement for collective survival and freedom.” In a statement, she said she sings it “as a Jew and as a trans woman.”’
‘Furman had this to say about the song in a press release: “This song is about what it feels like to live together under an empire that doesn’t value your lives. I sing it as a Jew and as a trans woman, knowing well the stakes and consequences of being part of a hated population. But it is a protest song intended for use by any movement for collective survival and freedom. ‘
‘Last month, Ezra Furman shared “Point Me Toward The Real,” her first solo single since the 2019 release of her fifth solo studio LP, Twelve Nudes. Since that record’s release, she’s been helping soundtrack the British Netflix series Sex Education. Today, she’s back with a powerful new track titled “Book Of Our Names,” sung in the style of protest songs past.’
“Book of Our Names” follows “Point Me Toward The Real,” which Furman released last month, marking her first solo offering since her 2019 album Twelve Nudes. “Point Me Toward the Real” and “Book of Our Names” also mark her first new music since coming out as a transgender woman in 2021.’
“Point Me Toward The Real” is Ezra Furman’s first solo release since coming out as trans in 2021, and judging by the track, she’s done dealing with anybody’s nonsense. “Point me to the real motherf–kers,” Furman sings.
Furman, a stalwart name in indie-rock and the musician behind the soundtrack for Netflix show “Sex Education,” turned out a dynamic set at Container Bar. “Psalm 151,” written about refugees, was gorgeously melancholy in a “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” way. Elsewhere, Furman either sang like she was remembering deep pain or entering a rock fugue state.
Ezra Furman’s voice and lyrics make you think that this came out sometime in the late 80’s. The ballads are slow and full of longing and sometimes unnecessary narratives. But in all the best ways.
“Point Me Toward the Real” – Ezra Furman: This is Furman’s first new track since 2019, and while the song’s context is very specific—what happens next after being picked up after being released from a psychiatric hospital—it feels very 2021 in its desire to find something solid to fix on.
Ezra Furman is back with a new single, “Point Me Toward the Real.” The track, is her debut for ANTI-. Along with the news, Furman has announces new North American tour date. “Point Me Toward the Real,” out via ANTI-/Bella Union, marks Furman’s first solo release since 2019’s Twelve Nudes. “Cut me loose, cut me loose,” Furman cries atop dreamy horn arrangements by Nathaniel Walcott (Bright Eyes), “Let me get hurt // Let me feel // Cut my bound hands free and point me toward the real.”
In her first solo release since coming out as transgender in 2021, indie folk star Ezra Furman is ready to get away from all of the bulls–t. On “Point Me To The Real,” Furman’s calm, hypnotizing voice rings out over a synthesized bed of drowsy melodies and a steady drum pattern, as she waxes philosophical on the very nature of her re-emergence into the world.
Ezra Furman présente la chanson Point Me Toward the Real. Cela concrétise sa signature avec la maison de disque ANTI-. Ce morceau fait suite à son album Twelve Nudes paru en 2019 et ses collaborations aux bandes sonores de Sex Education en 2020 et 2021.
Ezra Furman seems to encompass many genres. Throughout her career she’s dabbled in art pop, rock, indie pop, indie folk, etc. On her latest single, “Point Me Toward the Real,” Furman has a new sound: Neo soul. The song is a slow jam with Furman crooning in her own style.
‘“This is a neo-soul song about getting released from a psychiatric hospital, which has never happened to me,” Furman said in a statement. “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?”’
‘Ezra Furman released a new single titled “Point Me Toward the Real,” marking her debut release with ANTI-. The single is Furman’s first solo release since her 2019 album Twelve Nudes. Furman also recorded the soundtrack for the Netflix show Sex Education, released in 2020.’
‘Complete with horn arrangements by Bright Eyes’ Nathaniel Walcott and production by John Congleton (Angel Olsen, Future Islands, Sharon Van Etten), “Point Me Toward the Real” is a moody ballad about feeling isolated and horribly mistreated: “I’ve been lied to and abused/ Time to try to heal/ Cut me loose, cut me loose,” she sings in the chorus.’
‘Ezra Furman has signed to ANTI- and shared her first single for the label, “Point Me Toward the Real.” She has also announced some new North American tour dates. “Point Me Toward the Real” is about someone getting out of a psychiatric hospital. The song is also being released by the UK label Bella Union. Check it out below, followed by Furman’s upcoming tour dates. Tickets for the new fall dates go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time.’
Musician and songwriter Ezra Furman is finally releasing Netflix’s Sex Education soundtrack following Season 2 hitting the streaming network. Furman, tapped by the Sex Education creators to “be the Simon & Garfunkel to our The Graduate,” has shared Season 1’s somber acoustic ballad “Every Feeling” along with the news.
Ezra Furman has announced the release of her soundtrack to the acclaimed Netflix show Sex Education and shared a track from it, “Every Feeling.” Sex Education Original Soundtrack is due out digitally this Friday via Bella Union and features music from both seasons 1 and 2. The second season just premiered last Friday. The soundtrack is due out on CD and vinyl April 10. Check out “Every Feeling” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as Furman’s upcoming tour dates.
Following the success of last year’s Twelve Nudes, Ezra Furman announces Sex Education OST, songs from season 1 and 2 of the hit Netflix TV show. The 19-track LP will be released via Bella Union and is available to download and on DSPs this Friday, Jan. 24th, with a physical release on CD and vinyl to follow on April 10th. To celebrate Furman has shared “Every Feeling”, the standout track from Season 1. “Every Feeling” was inspired by a bad bout of depression: “I was so bored of having these feelings year after year, I just wanted to feel them all and get them over with.”
When it débuted on Netflix last year, the British series “Sex Education,” created and co-written by Laurie Nunn, established itself as one of the freshest, funniest, and most humane depictions of teen life in years. (Its second season came out on Friday.) It centers on Otis (Asa Butterfield), a mild-mannered teen who, despite being a virgin in a dorky windbreaker, in the first season becomes a sex therapist to his high-school peers. He’s got hangups—he won’t even masturbate—but, all around him, the world is bursting with vitality and lust, and, because his divorced parents are both sex therapists, he’s got the concepts down. A savvy classmate, Maeve (Emma Mackey), notices his talent for giving advice, and the plot unfurls from there. “Sex Education” has fun with its concept and characters while respecting them: we get to know people through their intimate vulnerabilities, alongside diagrams of genitalia and phrases like “scrotal anxiety.” As they manage their clinic and their lives, Otis and Maeve fall in love, but not at the same time. The writing and performances (many by relatively unknown young actors) are so sharp that, by the end of the first season, the status of each relationship felt like a cliffhanger.
It might seem tired to use the Divinyls’ masturbation anthem “Touch Myself” for a scene of yes, you guessed it, Otis (Asa Butterfield) touching himself. But, the Sex Education season 2 soundtrack is wired because it found a way to switch the track and make it something truly iconic. That’s why every song on the new season of Netflix’s Sex Education will get you in the mood. To do what, you ask? Well, anything your little heart desires.
Ezra Furman’s music is a vital part of Sex Education’s soundtrack, with songs like “Love You So Bad,” “I Can Change” and “Devil Or Angel” featuring across Seasons 1 and 2 of the Netflix show. Furman is such a part of the Sex Education world, in fact, that he cameoed in its first season as the singer at the school prom.
Ezra Furman released his fifth album Twelve Nudes in the summer of last year. And since then, we haven’t been able to stop listening to it. This is why.
The white noise makes Ezra Furman’s airhorn of a new album Twelve Nudes intensely gratifying. The 33-year-old singer-songwriter, an under-the-radar indie darling for the past decade who recently gained a new audience on the soundtrack of Netflix’s popular Sex Education, rails against the wealthy and powerful with lyrics that could be straight out of the Little Red Songbook and feedback-rich punk riffs straight out of CBGBs.
