Ezra Furman Talks Lou Reed and The “Fallen Angels” of Transangelic Exodus
Watch Furman play songs from his "queer outlaw saga" album live in the Paste Studio.
Back in March, Paste premiered the video for “Suck the Blood From My Wound,” an epic animated accompaniment to Ezra Furman’s exhilarating Transangelic Exodus. So we were honored when Furman stopped by the Paste Studio last week to play songs from the album he refers to as a “queer outlaw saga.”
Furman performed three stripped-down songs: “Come Here Get Away From Me,” “Love You So Bad,” and “God Lifts Up The Lowly” (the latter was particularly glorious). Despite the fact that he lives in Berkeley, Calif., Furman set his Transangelic Exodus story in Los Angeles, a “city of enormous glamour” but also “failed dreams” and “fallen angels.”
“I was rather obsessed with angels,” Furman told Paste. “I created this angel character on the album, and this idea of people turning into angels and being stigmatized for it, and threatened by some authoritarian government. It’s all rather conceptual, but the story is not on the record, and you don’t need to know the story. You get little scenes, and that’s all you need.”