Description
Transangelic Exodus is a new landmark for the American singer songwriter Ezra Furman: Not a concept record, but almost a novel, or a cluster of stories on a theme, a combination of fiction and a half-true memoir, according to its author. A personal companion for a paranoid road trip. A queer outlaw saga.
The music is as much of an intense, dramatic event, full of brilliant hooks, with an equally evolved approach to recorded sound to match Furmans narrative vision. In honour of this shift, his backing band has been newly christened: The Boy-Friends are dead, long live The Visions. In other words, the man who embodies the title of his last album Perpetual Motion People is still on the move Or, in the vernacular of the new album, on the run.
The narrative thread, Furman declares, is Im in love with an angel, and a government is after us, and we have to leave home because angels are illegal, as is harbouring angels. The term transangelic refers to the fact people become angels because they grow wings. The have an operation, and theyre transformed. And it causes panic because some people think its contagious, or it should just be outlawed.
The album still works without the back story, though, he vouches. Whats essential is the mood paranoid, authoritarian, the way certain people are stigmatised. Its a theme in American life right now, and other so-called democracies.
LP pressed on lilac vinyl with digital download code included.
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