This is nice. Love the repeated layers in the next few seconds...

why is this ONLY available on AmazonUK?  I can't even buy it cuz i don't have a UK bank account :/

“A great, dark classic pop song” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music

“Imperious vocals…oddball & accessible.” - 20 tracks you have to hear this week, NME
 
“What happened to Mansun's Paul Draper? Well, he's producing The Anchoress and the results are quite something” – CLASH

‘What Goes Around’ is the debut limited edition single from The Anchoress - a new project from Welsh London-based multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies, co-produced with Paul Draper. Set for release 5th May 2014 as a limited edition of 500 clear heavyweight vinyl (which sold out in 24 hours on preorder) via the prestigious Too Pure label (PJ Harvey, Stereolab, Hookworms), ‘What Goes Around’ is the first taste of The Anchoress’ forthcoming debut album and is a refreshing blast of “revenge pop”, with angular guitars and barbed lyrics framing this anthem about karmic balance.

‘What Goes Around’ will be released on May 5th 2014 via TOO PURE.

www.iamtheanchoress.com

Produced by Paul Draper & Catherine Anne Davies
Mixed by Cenzo Townsend
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios

Catherine Anne Davies: Vocal, Piano, Mellotron, Organ, BVs
Paul Draper: Guitar & BVs
Ben Sink: Electric Guitar
Ben Stack: Bass
Jon Barnett: Drums
Strings: Gillian Wood (cello), Mary Kelly (viola), Vicky Falconer Pritchard (violin)
String Arrangement by Gillian Wood

What Goes Around

An audio narration of our Starter Pack issue on new music communities,  generated using Eleven Labs and trained on Water & Music founder Cherie Hu's voice.

Original article: https://www.waterandmusic.com/starter-packs-new-music-communities/

Eleven Labs beta: https://beta.elevenlabs.io/

Starter Packs: New music communities

Bizarre Love Triangle

Written by Catherine Anne Davies
Produced by Paul Draper & Catherine Anne Davies

THE ANCHORESS: CONFESSIONS OF A ROMANCE NOVELIST
Debut album released January 8th 2016 (Digital)January 15th 2016(Physical)
Label: Kscope

Preorder on iTunes:
http://smarturl.it/COARN_DIGITAL

Deluxe gatefold CD with 20 page booklet:
https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/

"D​avies is making music like nobody else at the moment." - NME

"W​ales's (much more explicitly feminist) answer to Lana Del Rey.​"  - Ann Powers, NPR

Revenge-pop? The prog Karen Carpenter? Barbra Streisand on acid? Bat For Lashes on a book-binge? Whatever way you choose to describe ‘Confessions of A Romance Novelist’, the debut album by The Anchoress, one thing’s for sure: it packs a punch. Did I say “punch”? On tracks like ‘P.S. Fuck You’ it’s more of a kick. In the balls. Of an ex. who most definitely sounds like they deserved it…
 
The album is due for release on January 8th 2016 via Kscope, home to Grammy nominated Steven Wilson, Mercury Prize nominees Sweet Billy Pilgrim, and British rock gods Anathema.  A brand new track ‘Popular’ is available now with pre-orders of the album.
 
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, PhD and producer Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) sums up the album’s overall concept as "deconstructing normative ideas of love and romance", with each song sung by a different character – “what you might call a musical ghost writing of sorts”. You can hear this distilled in the Prince-inspired feminist manifesto ‘One For Sorrow’ that questions the concept of marriage. There’s a different take on obsessional love in the album’s title track, where the album’s narrator ironically references her “bedroom shrine to Margaret Thatcher”. Meanwhile, 'You And Only You' - an anthemic ode to being better off alone - features the distinctive operatic indie-wail of Mansun's Paul Draper, who co-produced the album with Catherine.
 
Draper helped to capture the collection of songs on which Catherine played a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, flute, omnichord, mellotron, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, and celeste, as well as multi-tracking up to 25 vocal harmonies on some of the songs. Yet, recording was interrupted by a series of events that threatened to derail the project completely, including Catherine injuring her hand so badly during a 48-hour recording session that she was told she might not play again and had to wear a metal cast for 6 months. She says: “This has been made on a wing and a prayer, lots of favours, one car crash, one death, one broken hand, and a lot of patience on so many parts. Stir in 3 jobs, 4 studios, 2 arrests, 3 pianos, 40 songs and 1 very patient engineer… and you get some way to understanding what a long road it has been.”
 
The album follows two sold-out singles, which were playlisted on both BBC 6Music and Xfm, and received plaudits across the globe, from America’s NPR, to Les Inrockuptibles in France, the NME, and influential websites like The Quietus and Line of Best Fit.
 
The Anchoress is currently on tour with Simple Minds, co-writing Paul Draper's debut solo album, and has begun working on her second album with Bernard Butler.
 
“Deft, engrossing lyrical work with some beautifully dark arrangements… an enthralling return” - CLASH
 
 "A strutting howl of a vocal and grit-edged guitar… a sprawl of dark southern gothic"  - THE QUIETUS

www.iamtheanchoress.com/
 
For more information:
National Press: Gillian@hallornothing.com
Online PR: louisa.worskett@caroline.com
Radio: fuzz.chaudhrey@caroline.com
Regional Press: Tom@hallornothing.com



Confessions Of A Romance Novelis

Confessions of a Romance Novelist

Joy Orbison, Hinge Finger Mix

CFCF remix Bear in Heaven's The Reflection of You. Hear the original of the track here: http://soundcloud.com/bear-in-heaven/bear-in-heaven-the-reflection

Bear in Heaven's 3rd album I Love You, It's Cool is due for release on April 3rd 2012 through Dead Oceans / Hometapes.

Bear in Heaven - The Reflection of You (CFCF remix)

dEUS dropped by the DiS portakabin before their set at Latitude and played two songs for us. Video of this will be up on http://youtube.com/drownedinsound v.soon. 

Sound by Ryan Hillier, Lauren Hichisson, Sam Thompson and Tom Joy from http://www.accesstomusic.co.uk/

dEUS - Instant Street (Live in the DiS Cabin at Latitude 2012)

Perfume Genius dropped by for a chat with DiS before his performance at Latitude Festival. We asked if he might sing a song for us and he graciously accepted, picked up a vintage Casio keyboard we had laying around and played this Madonna cover for us. Video footage of this, plus our interview will be up on http://youtube.com/drownedinsound very soon. 

Sound by Ryan Hillier, Lauren Hichisson, Sam Thompson and Tom Joy from http://www.accesstomusic.co.uk/

Perfume Genius - Oh Father (Madonna cover - live in the DiS Cabin at Latitude 2012)

Sharon Van Etten dropped by DiS' cabin at Latitude Festival to play us a couple of songs and chat about her incredible new record Tramp. Video footage of all this will be up on http://youtube.com/drownedinsound v.soon. 

Sound by Ryan Hillier, Lauren Hichisson, Sam Thompson and Tom Joy from http://www.accesstomusic.co.uk/

Sharon Van Etten - All I Can (Live in the DiS Cabin at Latitude 2012)

Josh T. Pearson popped into the DiS cabin at Latitude Festival to play us song and to tell a few jokes. Footage of this plus Josh asking Elbow some questions, will be up soon on http://youtube.com/drownedinsound very soon.

Sound by Ryan Hillier, Lauren Hichisson, Sam Thompson and Tom Joy from http://www.accesstomusic.co.uk/

Josh T. Pearson - Rivers of Babylon (The Melodians/Boney M cover from the DiS Cabin at Latitude '12)

Errors -  A Rumour In Africa (Gold Panda Remix)

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