Ezra Furman previews new album with fifth outing "Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven"

"Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven" is, in Furman's own words, "about how weird it gets, when you’re in love with the Source of Being and She’s not texting you back. Ever since it hit me that I was never going to be loved and accepted on the scale of my pop star heroes, me and my bandmates have started to work on a different vision of pop, one more our own, one that gestures at the stranger truths of the human mind. Here we are in thrall to verbally adventurous nineties music like Björk and Beck and the Silver Jews and them kinda non-linear geniuses."

The new track is accompanied by a Haoyan of America-directed video, and will appear on her All Of Us Flames album with previous singles "Lilac and Black", "Forever In Sunset", "Book Of Our Names" and "Point Me Toward The Real".

All Of Us Flames will follow Furman's 2019 album Twelve Nudes, and is produced by John Congleton.

She said of the album in May, "This is a first person plural album. 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."