The revolution begins in the basement for Ezra Furman

In a press release, Ezra Furman described her new album, Goodbye Small Head, as “twelve variations on the experience of completely losing control.” Asked in a late June interview if this was a new idea for her, and if she was traditionally someone who needed to have a firm grasp of the steering wheel, she paused.

“Hmm, let me think about that. I think in some places in my life I’m a bit control obsessed, and that’s often been true in my art life, my music life,” she said, and then reconsidered. “Well, no, let me start that answer over. You can tell I’m grasping for control even in just answering this question, where I’m like, I’ve got to say exactly what I mean. But a lot of the most vivid and beautiful experiences of my life are experiences of losing control and surrendering to a large experience, a big feeling, and I think I needed this music to be for that. I needed this music to be a place to lose control and to really open myself to what I can only have if I let go.”