Post by darknessfish on Jan 28, 2020 21:58:33 GMT
Anyone else a fan of this one-off album? A weird out-of-place acid folk album released in 1985 by former founding member of The Fall, Una Baines. I'd never heard of it till someone pointed me at it earlier this week because the band are playing the album live in Manchester this weekend.
I describe it as an acid-folk album, though it really meanders across genre, some tracks are more straight-forwardly indie singer/songwriter, some are acapella chant, others are strange synth-led theatrical moments. It really doesn't fit with anything of the time. There's a hint of The Raincoats, a nod back towards The Incredible String Band, or even Anne Briggs, a bit of Young Marble Giants, but it's quite distinctive and unique sounding.
The Fates are described in Roman (as Parcae), Greek (as Moirai) and Norse (as Norns) mythology as three women who control and 'weave the threads' of fate in the world. In later Anglo-Saxon culture, the word 'wyrd' described similar ideas of fate and destiny. It's interesting perhaps, in this context, how you can trace lines from Furia's sound and aesthetic through to the new wyrd folk revival of the early 2000s. More broadly, it was within this context of goddess worship - with Nico as strong female icon weaving dense lyrical imagery and strong harmonium lines, and with Baines finding inspiration in a feminist deep ecology of a pagan past - that The Fates' only record, Furia, was birthed. - thequietus.com/articles/15787-the-fates-furia-reissue-review
I describe it as an acid-folk album, though it really meanders across genre, some tracks are more straight-forwardly indie singer/songwriter, some are acapella chant, others are strange synth-led theatrical moments. It really doesn't fit with anything of the time. There's a hint of The Raincoats, a nod back towards The Incredible String Band, or even Anne Briggs, a bit of Young Marble Giants, but it's quite distinctive and unique sounding.
The Fates are described in Roman (as Parcae), Greek (as Moirai) and Norse (as Norns) mythology as three women who control and 'weave the threads' of fate in the world. In later Anglo-Saxon culture, the word 'wyrd' described similar ideas of fate and destiny. It's interesting perhaps, in this context, how you can trace lines from Furia's sound and aesthetic through to the new wyrd folk revival of the early 2000s. More broadly, it was within this context of goddess worship - with Nico as strong female icon weaving dense lyrical imagery and strong harmonium lines, and with Baines finding inspiration in a feminist deep ecology of a pagan past - that The Fates' only record, Furia, was birthed. - thequietus.com/articles/15787-the-fates-furia-reissue-review
