{"product_id":"furia","title":"Furia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fates’ Furia is the sole album by the Manchester collective formed around Una Baines, a founding member of the Fall and Blue Orchids. Recorded in 1985 and released in February 1986 on her own Taboo Records, it combines post-punk, experimental folk, primitive electronics, and communal singing, with a 2026 reissue returning it to circulation. Its defining quality is ritual: hand percussion, strummed guitars, wandering keyboards, and overlapping voices turn feminist resistance and goddess imagery into music that feels simultaneously intimate and ceremonial. Inspired partly by Robert Graves’s The White Goddess, Baines divided the record into a “waxing” side of relatively conventional songs and a “waning” side of increasingly open structures, making its movement from melody toward incantation part of the album’s design. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ceaseless Effort” opens with rattling percussion and insistent strumming, while “Bridget of Ireland,” written for Baines’s dying mother, brings flute and hand drums into a tender invocation of light and love. “Sheila” sets its demand for independence against a loping Velvet Underground-like rhythm, and “No Romance” makes collective vocals and keyboard melodies sound almost pop-ready. The later pieces move further into repetition and atmosphere: “Strength I” turns its recurring lines into a chant, “Holy Hymn” introduces a ceremonial synthesizer dirge, and “Who Am I” and “Ritual” combine spoken incantations with unsettling soundscapes. Closing “Strength II” strips the music back to unaccompanied voices, gathering confidence and harmony as they repeat their dawn imagery—a fitting endpoint for a record that transforms private grief and political anger into collective expression\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":67914458005818,"sku":"40273","price":55.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-11-06_at_9.08.21_PM.jpg?v=1794017508","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/furia","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}