Ezra Furman shares two singles “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and “Night Prayer”: Stream

Subsequent month, Ezra Furman will launch Twelve Nudes, his follow-up to final 12 months’s Transangelic Exodus. Forward of the 11-track effort’s launch through Bella Union, the indie rocker has shared two new singles, “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and “Night Prayer”.

Furman described the primary tune, “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend”, as “a romantic tune of transgender longing.” He continued, “It’s one other entry in my sequence of ‘I Wanna’ songs (within the custom of the Ramones). I believed it was time we had an ‘Earth Angel’ for the queers. After all as a result of it’s an Ezra Furman tune, there’s a bit little bit of desperation, faith and body-talk.” The charming ballad was additionally launched with a fascinating video from Alix Spence, which encompasses a couple dancing in a gymnasium auditorium.

Furman additionally supplied his ideas on the second of at the moment’s tracks, “Night Prayer”:

“It’s our rallying cry. We music followers go to reveals for transcendence; it’s like being known as to prayer. However as Abraham Heschel mentioned, ‘Prayer is meaningless except it’s subversive, except it seeks to overthrow and to spoil the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood.’ I would like all our followers to change into activists. We punk followers have a lot power to offer to the combat in opposition to injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the wealthy, i.e. local weather change. So that is one to get you within the temper.”

Watch the visible for “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and listen to “Night Prayer” beneath.

Furman’s forthcoming “spiritually queer” punk report, Twelve Nudes, drops on August 30th. He’ll hit the street supporting the report later in the summertime, and yow will discover tickets right here.