I received an email from Ezra Furman this week announcing his plans to release a solo album this February. The album will be called "The Year of No Returning", and Ezra sent along the album’s first track "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde".
MP3: Ezra Furman "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde"
In the press release that he included in his email he wrote, "these are songs I wrote after fighting with strangers. Stricken by writer’s block, I felt stuck in a songwriting persona that no longer applied to me. I don’t know why I was moved to start physical fights with people I met at bars. The first one happened by accident. The fact is, though, that I began writing the next morning and did not let up. Somehow physical violence was the catalyst for transcendence and forward creative progress. It’s something I do not recommend to others–I got hurt and I hurt other people. And yet for me, it was the key." Everyone finds their muse in different places, and Ezra Furman has found his in his fists, at least for this project.