The Arts Desk reviews Ezra Furman’s Perpetual Motion People
“Ezra Furman paints a picture which must be drawn from real life. If this album screams one thing loudest, it’s that Furman isn’t keeping anything hidden…”
“Ezra Furman paints a picture which must be drawn from real life. If this album screams one thing loudest, it’s that Furman isn’t keeping anything hidden…”
“There’s a ramshackle magical confidence that tumbles throughout all the songs, a sense that Furman has created his own unique, captivating world…”
“The highly anticipated follow up to Day Of The Dog, Perpetual Motion People sees Ezra Furman back with a bang…”
“Perpetual Motion People are the “people who feel they can never settle” for whom and by whom this album was made…”
“Ty Segall has formed a new band with members of Melvins and Redd Kross…”
“Furman would probably have seemed fairly unusual in any era, but his distinctiveness shines a little brighter in a world where a lot of rock is painted in neutral shades…”
“His work in collaboration with his regular backing band, The Boyfriends, seems to have lifted his songwriting still further from the norm, taking the glam-punk sound of his last album, 2013’s Day Of The Dog and moving it into new territory. The result is that he’s never sounded more like Ezra Furman…”
“Perpetual Motion People lives up to its title. Furman never sounds like he’s fronting the same band on any two tracks, and the copious, fascinating sleevenotes which accompany the record give every song its own address…”
” Perpetual Motion People raised the bar once again, continuing Furman’s reign as North America’s best songwriter…”
“From the album’s opener and lead single ‘Restless Year’, a song that could brighten the day of any sorry soul, the record flows into this cheerful vibe that never seems to slow down…”
“There are those that say that a prolific rock guitarist like Ty Segall should never put down the electric. Why would he? But those that cling to this narrow viewpoint, have obviously never seen Ty Segall rock a crowd without the benefit of electric amplification…”
“Ty Segall just finished up a run of solo acoustic shows in New York on Friday. As Stereogum points out, he covered Neil Young’s On the Beach track “For the Turnstiles” and trotted out a new song…”
“‘Perpetual Motion People’ is an album full of shoobedoos, dipshedipshedips and doobedoowopwops, courtesy of some eager backing vocals that are as playful as something from the ‘Grease’ soundtrack, shamelessly kitsch yet somehow deeply alluring…”
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