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Oct 23, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Ezra Furman has teamed up with Alex Walton for the new single, “Tie Me to the Train Tracks,” as well as its B-side, “Beat Me Up.” Listen to both songs below.

Ezra Furman says in a press release: “We made this song in a burst of neurotic passion at her old house in Roxbury, Boston one chronically-ill afternoon. The chains of luv had got us in their mortal grasp and it all came pouring out. And there’s a B-side (‘Beat Me Up’) too, out of this miniature masochistic fragment I’d made up which she then made into a brilliant full song, played and recorded entirely by her, that hits hard and leaves a mark. I don’t know how she does it but I feel lucky to do it with her.”

Alex Walton adds: “It was an honor and a privilege to not only work with Ezra, but to have her in my house, writing and recording together, going to the porch with cigarettes and notebooks in our hands, trying to contextualize everything. We wanted to make something stripped down, noisy, harsh, but still delicate, beautiful, frail. I think we achieved this.”

Furman adds: “I have met very few people who both understand the sheer psychospiritual power and potential of our inherited forms of popular music and can also execute the practical magic that creates new expressions of that music. Alex Walton is one of those very few people. She is a rock’n’roll goddess-waif who changed my life.”

We’ve never covered Walton before, but here’s how the press release describes her: “Lex Walton, who makes music under the name Alex Walton, is a 24 year old autodidactic musician, filmmaker, visual artist, former museum security guard, and amateur carpenter. A prolific recording artist, she has released two albums and an EP this year already.”

In 2023 Furman released a new EP, Sex Education - Songs From Season 4. The EP followed All of Us Flames, a new album Furman released in 2022 via ANTI-/Bella Union, and 2021’s Sex Education - Songs from Season 3 EP.

Furman was on the cover of our My Favorite Movie Issue and you can still buy a copy from us directly here.

Check out our 2020 interview with Furman in episode two of our official podcast’s first season.

Read our 2018 interview with Furman.

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