{"product_id":"the-fates-furia","title":"THE FATES - Furia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom founding member of The Fall and Blue Orchids.\u003cbr\u003eThe only record released on Una Baines’ Taboo Records, this will be the first ever release of the album in the United States\u003cbr\u003eSleeve artwork by Linder (Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict) and produced by Tony Friel (The Fall)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Remarkably prescient and weirdly beautiful record. A creative, challenging and memorable companion, with a distinct voice and identity of its own: in turn playful, political and experimental. It's highly recommended.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– The Quietus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing her foundational role in the early years of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/strong\u003e, and then the searing post punk of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Blue Orchids\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as several tours serving as a backing group for Velvet Underground chanteuse \u003cstrong\u003eNico\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e Una Baines\u003c\/strong\u003e found herself starting 1985 without a band. Drafting together members of the all-female \u003cstrong\u003eBeyond The Glass\u003c\/strong\u003e, and compatriots associated with her past projects, she entered the studio with a clutch of songs and a willingness to experiment. Separating the sides into “waxing”, for the more traditional songs, and “waning”, where the structures become looser and varied, the resulting album was the sole release on her \u003cstrong\u003eTaboo Records\u003c\/strong\u003e and seemed quickly lost to time, but feels shockingly current in both feminist content, and freak folk execution.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a collection of influences that would emerge decades later in the wyrd folk movement, and \u003cstrong\u003eFuria \u003c\/strong\u003eis not out of place at an intersection of \u003cstrong\u003eDevendra Banhart\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMeg Baird\u003c\/strong\u003e, but there was absolutely nothing like it in 1986. Upon release, \u003cstrong\u003eMark E. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e famously likened it to \u003cstrong\u003eThird Ear Band\u003c\/strong\u003e, having to dip back to 1970 for a touchstone. Songs like “Bridget of Ireland” could be traditional ballads from decades past, while “No Romance” is a lo-fi new wave hit waiting to happen. “Sheila\/Beats My Heart” fashions \u003cstrong\u003eThe Velvet Underground\u003c\/strong\u003e as a feminist protest band, and “Ritual” plays out like all of the \u003cstrong\u003eMotown girl groups\u003c\/strong\u003e banding together to tell the world that they don’t need a boyfriend to solve all of their problems. It all draws on sources that are so familiar, yet turns them upside down in a celebratory fashion. Is it freak folk? Pagan punk? Pastoral drone? It is all of that and so much more. It is the sound of a woman, and an artist, truly finding her voice, and it is both magical and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EXTENDED VOICES","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":54850665218371,"sku":"RPT-33660","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/FOR_20260929_1039_102015_777_p_05716e8b-e21c-a3a6-c95c-a4c87868cbcd_2_001.jpg?v=1790679238","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/the-fates-furia","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}