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

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There aren’t many musicians like Ezra Furman.

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