A singer, songwriter, and author whose incendiary music has soundtracked the Netflix show Sex Education, Ezra Furman has, for years, woven together stories of queer discontent and unlikely, fragile intimacies.

She has a knack for zeroing in on the light that sparks when struggling people find each other and ease each other's course. Her new album, “All of Us Flames”, widens that focus to a communal scope, painting transformative connections among people who unsettle the stories power tells to sustain itself.

Inside the world of her new album, the end of the patriarchal capitalist empire seems both imminent and inevitable, a turn down a path we can't see yet but can't avoid, either. Furman took inspiration from Bob Dylan's '80s albums, whose tone she describes as "a little bitter and a little hopeful," as well as the collective ferocity of '60s girl groups, particularly the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes