Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus

Can we talk about how good this album is.

To me it sounds like The Auteurs' 'How I Learned To Love The Bootboys' crossed with Gerard Way's 'Hesitant Alien', and that is a Venn diagram I am Officially Okay with.

I dig it

so good

i have one friend who is a perennial ezra pusher so ive heard three or four of his albums once , i usually find the ratio of cute production ideas to hooks low but this one gets it right, if a little long. blown out revved up glam mode is my fav

gave the prior album a go and lasted about two minutes, that voice is utterly horrendeous

"ratio of cute production ideas to hooks low"

sort of how I feel about it. I love the vibe and the sound, especially the drums.
It hit me the first few times I played it, and I really wanted to get into it. (starved for new favorites)
I still play it, but rarely make it half way through now.

its also fn long yea

Still thinking this is one of the best albums of the year. It’s like Modern Vampires of the City performed as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Also the #gaycontent is very enjoyable.

this album is so vital

so the new one

Brad

I only recently heard "Body Was Made" and really loved it. How can I not appreciate a ripoff made with such care, such dedication.

I really like "Suck the blood from my wound". Which sounds like what people do when they want to go Springsteen (which ends up resulting nothing at all like Springsteen). It's usually a dry place, but this one sounds well thought, fresh, smart; very original in its derivativeness.

Brad

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hi i've still never heard an ezra furman song. gonna give this a shot soon

Wow, this album is really, really great. I got to it through a negative review of Kyle Craft, so i listened with on a defensive, prejudiced mode. But man, this is great stuff. Voice can be a weak link, as said above; in fact, it tricked me into believing it was going to be some sloppy glam thing like Mac De Marco. But it's really nothing like that; the singing reminds me of Dan Boeckner.

I can see the connections with Vampire Weekend, though it sounds like a sparser "Born to Run" to me. It's been some time since I heard springsteenisms put to such good use.

I dunno, this album is fun but I miss the ambition of Transangelic Exodus.

Mmm actually I was referring to Transangelic.

I haven't got to Twelve Nudes yet!

I get "I Killed Myself But I Didn't Die" off the Harpoons album stuck in my head constantly.

Kinda sucks that Ezra's original songs have to fight for space on Sex Education against those very expensive needle drops.

I only know the singles but wow this guy is fab.

I’m love her and she pretty

Listening party for new album going on RIGHT NOW right here: https://ezrafurman.bandcamp.com/live/goodbye-small-head-listening-party

I've heard the last few songs, sounds good. Loved the last record.

I hadn't been aware Ezra had a new album this year!

On first run through 'Goodbye Small Head' sounds great though, like a sequel to 'Transangelic Exodus' and hence very much in my zone - though here is where I ruefully admit that I have no recollection of listening to 2022's 'All Of Us Flames', so I need to correct that before I hail this as some kind of return to form.

Did ivy ever hear 'Transangelic Exodus'????

haven't heard a note of ezra's music somehow. correcting this

hi i've still never heard an ezra furman song. gonna give this a shot soon

lmao i've been stuck in this pattern for ages

All of Us Flames is great! This one from it is a banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUTcb368kM

“I Need The Angel” is such a great way to finish the new album.

ivy, Transangelic Exodus is such an ivy-coded album that either you will love it or it will be a buffy/faith sitch

ivy, Transangelic Exodus is such an ivy-coded album that either you will love it or it will be a buffy/faith sitch

― Tim F, Thursday, June 19, 2025 6:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

first impression is it's transgender dysphoria blues for people who only have two records in their collection: "warm leatherette" and a really melted and distorted cassette copy of bat out of hell

i love it

or it's like a long lost gerard way solo album, just to echo your OP

i love it

man i’ve really been missing out

listened to “suck the blood from my wound” 100 times in a row today. trans born to run

That’s one of my favorite songs ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmALmuvoUw

I am pleased by this turn of events