Ezra Furman and Alex Walton have teamed up for a new single, ‘Tie Me to the Train Tracks’. It’s out now via Bella Union alongside a B-side called ‘Beat Me Up’, which features vocals by Walton. Take a listen below.
“We made this song in a burst of neurotic passion at her old house in Roxbury, Boston one chronically-ill afternoon,” Furman said in a statement. “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 added: “It was an honour 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.”
