A singer, songwriter, and author whose incendiary music has soundtracked all three seasons of the Netflix show Sex Education, Ezra Furman has for years woven together stories of queer discontent and unlikely, fragile intimacies. Her new album ‘All of Us Flames’ widens that focus to a communal scope, painting transformative connections among people who unsettle the stories power tells to sustain itself.
Produced by John Congleton in L.A., ‘All of Us Flames’ unleashes Furman's songwriting in an open, vivid sound world whose boldness heightens the music's urgency. The record arrives as the third instalment in a trilogy of albums, beginning with 2018's Springsteen-inflected road saga Transangelic Exodus and continuing with the punk rock fury of 2019's Twelve Nudes.
"This is a first person plural album," Furman says. "It's a queer album for the stage of life when you start to understand that you are not a lone wolf, but depend on finding your family, your people, how you work as part of a larger whole. I wanted to make songs for use by threatened communities, and particularly the ones I belong to: trans people and Jews."
Ezra Furman - All Of Us Flames
A1. Train Comes Through
A2. Throne
A3. Dressed in Black
A4. Forever in Sunset
A5. Book Of Our Names
A6. Point Me Toward the Real
B1. Lilac and Black
B2. Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club
B3. Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven
B4. Temple Of Broken Dreams
B5. I Saw the Truth Undressing
B6. Come Close