The Fury (album)
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| Studio album by Gary Numan | ||||
| Released | September 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1985 at Rock City Studios, Shepperton, England | |||
| Genre | Synthpop, funk rock, new wave, industrial rock, dark wave | |||
| Length | 69:37 | |||
| Label | Numa Records | |||
| Producer | Gary Numan, The Wave Team, Colin Thurston | |||
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1999 UK reissue cover
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1998 U.S. reissue cover
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The Fury is the ninth studio album, and seventh under his own name, by musician Gary Numan, released in 1985. It saw him continuing to explore the sampling-heavy industrial sound he had developed for the previous album Berserker in 1984. The album was his second released under his self-owned Numa Records label.
Although Numan's previous album Berserker had failed to make a notable commercial impact, Numan decided to continue with a similar sound for his next record. For the second time in his career he decided to team up with other people to produce his album, recruiting The Wave Team (Mike Smith, Ian Herron) as his co-producers. Colin Thurston assisted on the production of one track.
The Fury, as the album was to be called, continued with the highly sampled, metallic, industrial sound heard on Berserker but added layers of electronic funk that he had previously experimented with on I, Assassin (1982) and Warriors (1983). The style would become a crucial part of his music as the 1980s progressed. As on Berserker, the rhythm section is dominated by aggressive electronic percussion and usage of samples, but the fretless bass that had been an important element on the previous album disappeared almost completely, with only three tracks on the new album featuring a bass. The rhythm elements were balanced with the usage of a PPG Wave synthesiser, saxophonist Dick Morrissey (who had appeared on Warriors) again provided the more melodic elements, while guitars were virtually non-existent. Tessa Niles and Tracey Ackerman contributed female backing vocals, similar to those already heard on Berserker, which would be another continuing theme in Numan's work until the early 1990s. Of the album, Numan later recalled:
The usage of sampling on the album is especially prominent on the album's anthemic opening track (and second single), "Call Out the Dogs", which uses several easily recognisable samples taken from the 1982 science fiction movie Blade Runner. This marked the beginning of Numan's fascination with the movie that would also resurface on his next three studio albums, Strange Charm in 1986, Metal Rhythm in 1988, and Outland in 1990.
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