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EZRA FURMAN

It borrows the qualities of its forebears and fuses them into something new

Twelve Nudes BELLA UNION

8/10

A 26-minute blast of ‘passionate negativity’ proves highly therapeutic.

IF self-help is often all about positive thinking, Ezra Furman has another idea: that there might instead be fulfilment in the opposite, in airing one’s worst thoughts. Indeed, Twelve Nudes, the songwriter’s eighth album, explores this with a blistering spin through anxiety, pain and socio-political ills

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