{"id":2444451,"date":"2019-05-21T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838422"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:04:44","slug":"ezra-furman-rebels-against-broken-society-in-calm-down-aka-i-should-not-be-alone-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ezra-furman-rebels-against-broken-society-in-calm-down-aka-i-should-not-be-alone-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Furman Rebels Against Broken Society in \u2018Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday Ezra Furman<\/a> announced a new album, Twelve Nudes<\/em>, and released its first single, \u201cCalm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.\u201d The song is accompanied by a surreal animated video by Beth Jeans Houghton, a.k.a. Du Blonde.<\/p>\n

\u201cDesperate times make for desperate songs,\u201d Furman wrote of the song in a statement. \u201cI wrote this in the summer of 2018, a terrible time. It\u2019s the sound of me struggling to admit that I\u2019m not OK with the current state of human civilization, in which bad men crush us into submission. Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twelve Nudes<\/em> was recorded in Oakland and mixed by John Congelton, who recently produced albums for Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent and Priests. Furman refers to the album as \u201cour punk record\u201d and \u201cspiritually queer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made it in Oakland, quickly,\u201d he says. \u201cWe drank and smoked. Then we made the loud parts louder. I hurt my voice screaming. This was back in 2018, when things were bad in the world. The songs are naked with nothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furman will embark on a North American tour in support of Twelve Nudes<\/em> in September. The album is out August 30th.<\/p>\n

Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes<\/em> North American Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 5 \u2013 St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
September 7 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
September 8 \u2013 Detroit, MI @ El Club
September 9 \u2013 Toronto, Canada @ Lee\u2019s Palace
September 10 \u2013 Montreal, Canada @ Bar Le \u201cRitz\u201d P.D.B
September 11 \u2013 Cambridge, MA @ SONIA
September 12 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday Ezra Furman announced a new album, Twelve Nudes, and released its first single, \u201cCalm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.\u201d The song is accompanied by a surreal animated video by Beth Jeans Houghton, a.k.a. Du Blonde. \u201cDesperate times make for desperate songs,\u201d Furman wrote of the song in a statement. \u201cI wrote this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 13:20:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}