“an electrifying roar of hopelessness and rage”
“Ezra Furman’s last album, 2018’s ‘Transangelic Exodus’, was an epic, Springsteen-inspired journey through the underbelly of American culture – as he’s put it, witnessed by a “queer outlaw”. It was wildly ambitious concept record about a couple on the run; a combination of honky-tonk rock’n’roll and moody, atonal no-wave that the musician laboured over in minute detail. Furman has always championed”
“Twelve Nudes may be the most intimate Ezra Furman record yet”
“In the half decade since I first saw Ezra Furman peeping out of a festival tent, drawing a crowd with ruminations of how nothing was real and God was a train, “punk” has widened its catchment area. It can now implicate Zimbabwean mbira rhythms and thumb pianos, friendliness and ABBA impersonators. Furman’s character has been assembled in this time with care and astuteness, too – the timid experime”
“Like a lot of people, Ezra Furman has been alarmed by the “broken world,” as he calls it, that has emerged over the past few years. It shows in his music. Though the Oakland singer has long channeled his disaffection into his songs, he’s never done it with as much immediacy as on Twelve Nudes. Furman’s latest is the rapid-fire follow-up to his 2018 album, Transangelic Exodus, and in many ways, it”
“The songwriter’s most direct and brash album yet has no time for saxophones or keyboards. She gives specific, unpoetic examples and doesn’t mince words.”
