Ezra Furman releases a new single/video, “Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven,” off of her forthcoming album, All of Us Flames (ANTI- / Bella Union), out August 26th. On “Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven,” Furman recounts a childhood encounter with God, a gesture of spiritual yearning that flows into the album’s biblical facets. Her voice resonates over building instrumentation, bolstered by layered vocals. “The spiritual life ain’t all pious platitudes,” she elaborates. “This song is 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 Bjork and Beck and the Silver Jews and them kinda non-linear geniuses.”

As for the video, directed by Haoyan of America, Furman, “basically told Haoyan a story I made up about a trans Joan of Arc narrowly avoiding her public execution, and then gave him free rein to do whatever he wanted with it, as long as Daphne Always (also seen in our recent ‘Forever in Sunset’ video) played Joan. I adore the cracked brilliance of what came out.”

Ezra Furman Tour Dates:
Sun. Aug. 14 – Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom ^
Tues. Aug. 16 – Milwaukee, WI @ UWM Panther Arena ^
Wed. Aug. 17 – Indianapolis, IN @ TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park ^
Thu. Aug. 18 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
Tues. Aug  23 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh International Festival
Wed. Aug 24 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Mon. Sep. 12 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rosa  !
Tue. Sep. 13 – Toronto, ON @ Rec Room  !
Wed. Sep. 14 – Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch !
Thu. Sep. 15 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Small’s !
Fri. Sep. 16 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar !
Sun. Sep. 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts !
Mon. Sep. 19 – Providence, RI @ Fete Ballroom !
Tue. Sep. 20 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair  !
Wed. Sep. 21 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall !
Thu. Sep. 22 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Festival
Mon. Oct. 31 – Bruges, BE @ Cactus Club *
Tue. Nov. 1 – Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo *
Wed. Nov. 2 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg *
Thu. Nov. 3 – Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich *
Sat. Nov. 5 – Cologne, DE @ Kulturkirche *
Sun. Nov. 6 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaaal Kreutzberg *
Mon. Nov. 7 – Prague, CZ @ Roxy *
Tue. Nov. 8 – Vienna, AT @ Arena Wien *
Wed. Nov. 9 – Graz, AT @ Dom Im Berg *
Thurs. Nov 10 – Leipzig, DE @ Transcentury Update Festival
Sat. Nov. 12 – Fribourg, CH @ Fri-Son *
Sun. Nov. 13 – Munich, DE @ Freiheitshalle *
Mon. Nov. 14 – Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom *
Wed. Nov. 16 – Brighton, UK @ St Georges Church *
Thu. Nov. 17 – London, UK @ The Roundhouse *
Sat. Nov. 19 – Birmingham, UK @ The Mill *
Mon. Nov. 21 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz *
 
^ w/ Jack White
! w/ Art Moore
*w/ The Golden Dregs