Ezra Furman announces new album Perpetual Motion People, shares new song "Lousy Connection"

This latest preview of the record is a slinky, introspective doo-wop ballad with grand Broadway inclinations - it's big, it's emotional, and shines a spotlight on Furman's inner machinations. It's not quite the rock'n'roll bombast we had on "Restless Year", and showcases a more anxious, inward-glancing side to Furman's upcoming output.

The rock-pop songwriter says of his upcoming record:

“The opening lines of my records tend to be summary statements... every year has been restless, physically and even more internally. That's who it was made by and that's who it's for. People who feel they can never settle. I’m restless in most aspects. I don't tend to live in one place for long. I am always changing the way I present my gender. My religious life is intensely up and down in terms of observance and personal convictions. I’ve always viewed the idea of truth itself as something wobbly, always slipping out of our grasp. That's what the songs are about: a head that is haunted, a society I cannot join, a lover who is perpetually in the act of leaving. A central idea is the fugitive or runaway, in a hideout built in the midst of an unfriendly or alienated world...

"The other aspect is a feeling of expansiveness, the largeness of emotion, from joy to pain. Some people think life is small or confined, but to me it’s just big, and I’d say each song has something to say, to declare themselves large. It’s also to do with trying to make something that a lot of people would listen to after Day Of The Dog got some kind of increased attention.”

Perpetual Motion People is set for release on 6 July via Bella Union.

Stream "Lousy Connection" below, and then check out the LP's tracklist after. Furman has also announced a few UK shows, which you can find details of after the track.

Tracklist:

1. Restless Year
2. Lousy Connection
3. Hark! to the Music
4. Haunted Head
5. Hour Of Deepest Need
6. Wobbly
7. Ordinary Life
8. Tip of a Match
9. Body Was Made
10. Watch You Go By
11. Pot Holes
12. Can I Sleep In Your Brain?
13. One Day I Will Sin No More

May

19 – Glasgow, Poetry Club
20 – Manchester, The Castle Hotel
21 – London, The Lexington

October

22 – London, O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire