Ezra Furman shares "Teddy I'm Ready" from new EP Big Fugitive Life

Furman's new short-player arrives just over a year after latest LP Perpetual Motion People.

Speaking about Big Fugitive Life, Furman says:

“Big Fugitive Life is a group of our favourite orphaned songs that have banded together to form a unit. They are focused on the theme of the mind unmoored - those of us who have been left to drift unsupervised through the modern world. Four of these tracks were originally intended for inclusion on Perpetual Motion People. Two of them were for The Year of No Returning. But they weren't ready until now.

"The first three songs are our vision of rock and roll. A madness that overtakes your mind and body. It's wanting to go somewhere you've never been, knowing you're on your way. The second side is acoustic guitar as open wound, a troubled mind on display. Emotional in a different way, tender like a bruise. It includes 'The Refugee', my first song entirely concerned with my Jewish background and present, a song dedicated to my grandfather who fled the Nazis as well as to all of the refugees desperate for a home today.

"We dedicate this record to refugees of all kinds, all over the world. May all the wanderers find the homes they seek, and and may those with power welcome them as fellow citizens of humanity.

"This feels like an end of a chapter for me, musically. A beautiful, insane chapter. Keep an ear out for our next phase - we've been dreaming big.”

Furman is set to play a huge heap of live dates in the UK soon, including at End Of The Road festival in September, and a headline date on Halloween at London's Roundhouse - with Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon as support.

The Big Fugitive Life EP is due 19 August on Bella Union.

Listen to "Teddy I'm Ready" below.

Tracklist:

1. Teddy I'm Ready
2. Halley's Comet
3. Little Piece Of Trash
4. Penetrate
5. Splash Of Light
6. The Refugee

August

19 – DEVON – Beautiful Days
21 – CRICKHOWELL – Green Man
22 – BATH – Komedia (SOLD OUT)
24 – PRESTON – Continental Pub (SOLD OUT)
25 – HEBDEN BRIDGE – Trades Club (SOLD OUT)
26 – LEEDS – Reading & Leeds festival
28 – READING – Reading & Leeds festival
29 – RAMSGATE – Music Hall

September

3 – LARMER TREE GARDENS – End of the Road
4 – LAOIS – Electric Picnic

October

27 – MANCHESTER – Ritz
29 – EDINBURGH – Liquid Rooms
30 – CARDIFF – Tramshed
31 – LONDON – Roundhouse (with Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon)