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Ms. Ezra Furman

  • Goodbye Small Head [Bella Union, 2025] A−

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Goodbye Small Head [Bella Union, 2025]
Flaunt though she may the gender-affirming "Ms." of the billing and the penis reference of the title, the long left-identified and now also trans-identified Furman is here to insist not that her love life is a mess, if indeed it is, but that the world is a mess, which nobody can deny. "Stop the car now! Time to jump out," she warns. "The human mind is a maze in the hedges/On the lawn of a distant king," she goes on. But if you need one to home in on first, try "Submission": "We'll see no victory day/Let's see how much I can take/Keep going a little more/I can take a little more/I'll take it take it take it." Words to live by? Maybe not. To stay alive for? Let's hope so. A−