FURIA (TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL DINKED EDITION A.38) THE FATES

• Founding member of The Fall and Blue Orchids
• The only record released on Una Baines’ Taboo Records.
• Sleeve artwork by Linder (Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict) and produced by Tony Friel (The Fall)
Following her foundational role in the early years of The Fall, and then the searing post punk of The Blue Orchids, as well as several tours serving
as a backing group for Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, Una Baines found herself starting 1985 without a band. Drafting together members
of the all-female Beyond The Glass, 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 Taboo Records and seemed quickly lost to time, but feels shockingly current in both
feminist content, and freak folk execution.
It is a collection of influences that would emerge decades later in the wyrd folk movement, and Furia is not out of place at an intersection of
Devendra Banhart and Meg Baird, but there was absolutely nothing like it in 1986. Upon release, Mark E. Smith famously likened it to Third Ear
Band, 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 The Velvet Underground as a feminist protest band, and
“Ritual” plays out like all of the Motown girl groups 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.
“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.” – The Quietus

● Translucent Green vinyl*
● 12” x 12” print*
● Dinked OBI strip & gold foil archive sticker*
● Numbered edition of 350 copies*
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition