It takes hope to be resilient in the face of losing control. Ezra Furman’s latest album, Goodbye Small Head, is intrinsically brave. It’s full of the optimistic guiding light that is hope, especially as it’s plagued by dark subject matter. In a press statement, Furman candidly explained that these twelve songs delineate a loss of control through means conventional and not: weakness, heartbreak, mysticism, drugs, and living in society with your eyes wide open.
On the latter, this arduous second Trump term has already caused unfortunate global uncertainty to set in for transgender people, of which Furman has blossomed as such in recent years. By the circumstances of when these recordings emerged, Furman’s ruminations here are so important.

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