Perpetual Motion People

AlbumJul 06 / 201513 songs, 42m 38s
Indie Rock
Popular Highly Rated
6.9 / 10

Unlike the wiry, anxious music his brother Jonah writes with the Massachusetts band Krill, Ezra Furman's music hides little behind metaphor or enigma. Perpetual Motion People is a playful, hefty romp through folk, blues, and plain old rock'n'roll.

9 / 10

Furman recasts his personal woes into forty minutes of endlessly fascinating creativity by throwing sixty years of popular music into a blender.

Furman sounds sunnier than a heatwave despite lyrics of manic self-doubt

Check out our album review of Artist's Perpetual Motion People on Rolling Stone.com.

There aren’t many musicians like Ezra Furman.

Ezra Furman returns with Perpetual Motion People, her third solo LP and first for British indie Bella Union.

7.0 / 10

Ezra Furman's third solo album is about youth, discontentment, and longing. A little scattered and with occasionally mediocre lyrics, it congeals into a fun, extremely varied, and repeatedly listenable album.

9 / 10

Music Review: Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People

The cross-dressing misfit proves easy on the ear with this scattershot third album full of great hooks and choruses

8 / 10

7 / 10

The Chicago artist plunders his record collection – from 1960s garage rock to Bowie’s Diamond Dogs – for a fresh sound that wears its outsider status like a badge of honour

Album Reviews: Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People

Doo-wop and honking sax on the musical eccentric’s calling card to a mass audience. CD review by Kieron Tyler

8 / 10