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Tracklist:

Suck the Blood From My Wound
Driving Down to L.A
God Lifts Up The Lowly
No Place
The Great Unknown
Compulsive Liar
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From A Beach House
Love You So Bad
Come Here Get Away From Me
Peel My Orange Every Morning
Psalm 151
I Lost My Innocence

Transangelic Exodus is a new landmark for the American singer songwriter Ezra Furman: “Not a concept record, but almost a novel, or a cluster of stories on a theme, a combination of fiction and a half-true memoir,” according to its author. “A personal companion for a paranoid road trip. A queer outlaw saga.”

“The narrative thread,” Furman declares, “is I’m in love with an angel, and a government is after us, and we have to leave home because angels are illegal, as is harbouring angels. The term ‘transangelic’ refers to the fact people become angels because they grow wings. The have an operation, and they’re transformed. And it causes panic because some people think it’s contagious, or it should just be outlawed. The album still works without the backstory, though. What’s essential is the mood – paranoid, authoritarian, the way certain people are stigmatised. It’s a theme in American life right now, and other so – called democracies.”