Ezra Furman’s ‘Goodbye Small Head’ Captures Overwhelm

[Cover photo credit to Eleanor Petry]

Ezra Furman‘s 10th studio album, Goodbye Small Head, is out now via Bella Union. The final album single Sudden Storm, has also been released. Blending 60s experimental Rock with Punk, it was written during the same session as album opener “Grand Mal” after talking with a friend about the experience of seizures.

Goodbye Small Head was written around the “helpless transcendence of being suddenly overcome, undone.” The album title is a homage to the 1999 Sleater-Kinney single “Get Up”.

Over the course of her career, Furman has scored Netflix’s Sex Education, authored Lou Reed: Transformer for the 33 ⅓ series, became a mother, and most recently collaborated with Sharon Van Etten to cover Sinead O’Connor’s “Feel So Different” for the TRANSA benefit compilation by the not for profit organization Red Hot.

Ezra Furman North American Tour – TICKETS

# = w/ The Ophelias

^ = w/ The Golden Dregs

* = w/ Lex Walton

% = w/ phased out

7/8: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall #

7/9: St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam #

7/10: Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s Live Music #

7/13: Indianapolis, IN @ Turntable #

7/14: Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups #

7/15: Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre #

7/16: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom #

7/17: Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch # %

8/3: San Diego, CA @ Music Box #

8/5: Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #

8/6: Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley #

8/7: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall #

8/10: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #

8/12: Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre #

8/13: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile #

10/20: Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre ^

10/21: Toronto, ON @ The Axis Club ^

10/22: Troy, NY @ No Fun ^

10/23: Portland, ME @ State Theatre ^

10/25: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair ^

10/26: Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom ^

10/27: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^

10/28: Washington, DC @ Union Stage ^

10/29: New York, NY @ Webster Hall *