CHROMATICS / IN FILMS

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:
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Regional Press: Tom@hallornothing.com



Confessions Of A Romance Novelis

Confessions of a Romance Novelist

Taken from Kate Jackson's debut solo album, 'British Road Movies', out 20th May 2016 via Hoo Ha Records.
Pre order the album here:
on digital:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/british-road-movies/id1085394690?app=itunes&ls=1
on vinyl:
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/101470
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Road-Movies-VINYL-Jackson/dp/B01BVYNKVO/
on CD:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Road-Movies-Kate-Jackson/dp/B01BVYNIVG/
https://www.katejackson.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/katejacksonandthewrongmoves
https://twitter.com/KateJacksonWM



Metropolis

Jane Third of Because Music talks at DICE Girls Music Day at Sonos Studio, London on March 12th. 

DICE Girls Music Day - Jane Third, Because Music

Welcome to the Podcart podcasts.

This week's very special guest is Kathryn Joseph! The Scottish Album Of The Year (SAY) Award winner chatted to Podcart chose a selection of her most-loved tracks past, present and future. 

You can buy Kathryn's award winning album via https://kathrynjoseph.bandcamp.com/album/bones-you-have-thrown-me-and-blood-ive-spilled

Please listen and enjoy and remember to check out the artists in more depth.

1. Kathryn Joseph - 'The Mouth' (Hits The Fan Records) 
2. Glen Campbell - 'Wichita Lineman' (Capitol Records)
3. Jeff Buckley - 'Morning Theft' (Columbia) 
4. Low - 'Two-Step' (Kranky)
5. PJ Harvey - 'A Place Called Home' (Island) 
6. Taylor Swift - 'This Love' (Big Machine) 
7. Joanna Newsom - 'Go Long' (Drag City) 
8. Bossy Love - 'Body' 
9. HQFU - 'Poison' *exclusive* 
10. Kathryn Joseph - 'The Blood' (Hits The Fan Records)

www.podcart.co

The Kathryn Joseph Podcast

Taken from the album "Strangers" out on May 20th 2016.

Pre-order on iTunes -OR- Bandcamp & download "Janie in Love", "All the Colors of the Dark" and "Katie I Know" instantly:

iTunes: geni.us/MNstrangersiTunes
Bandcamp: marissanadler.bandcamp.com/

Website: www.marissanadler.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarissaNadlerMusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/marissanadler
Instagram: www.instagram.com/marissa_nadler
on Sacred Bones: www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections…issa-nadler
on Bella Union: bellaunion.com/artists/marissa-nadler/

Tour Dates: www.marissanadler.com/tourdates

May 18 – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool (SOLD OUT)
May 24 - Brighton, UK - Prince Albert ^ 
May 25 - London, UK - St John on Bethnal Green
May 26 - Manchester, UK - Soup Kitchen ^
May 27 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast ^
 May 28 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory ^
May 29 - Cork, IE - Cyprus Avenue ^
May 31 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club ^
June 1 - Bristol, UK - The Louisiana
June 2 - Lille, FR - La Péniche
June 3 - Paris, FR - FGO-Barbara
June 4 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Muziekcentrum
June 5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso ^
June 7 - Hamburg, DE - MS Stubnitz
June 8 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA ^
June 9 - Berlin, DE - Roter Salon
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July 5 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^*
July 6 - Boise, ID - Neurolux ^*
July 8 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^*
July 9 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge ^*
July 10 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge ^*
July 11 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry ^*
July 12 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^*
July 13 - Detroit, MI - El Club ^*
July 14 - Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel ^*
July 15 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa ^*
July 16 - Hudson, NY - The Half Moon ^* 
July 19 - Boston, MA - Great Scott ^*
July 20 - Providence, RI - Aurora ^*
July 21 - NYC - Bowery Ballroom ^*
July 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's ^*
July 24 - Washington, D.C. - DC9 ^*
July 25 - Raleigh, NC - Cat's Cradle Back Room ^*
July 26 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL ^*
July 27 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa ^*
July 29 - Austin, TX - The Sidewinder ^*
July 30 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves ^*
August 1 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar ^*
August 2 - San Diego, CA - Casbah ^*
August 3 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo ^*
August 4 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel ^*
August 5 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library ^*
August 7 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt ^*
August 8 - Seattle, WA - Barbosa ^*

^ with Wrekmeister Harmonies
* with Muscle and Marrow

Strangers

Katie I Know

Marissa Nadler - Katie I Know

Furnaces

Dionysus

In the first episode of Last of Your Kind, a podcast by musician, songwriter, producer and renaissance man Ed Harcourt, he chats to legendary gonzo artist Ralph Steadman - who recently did the cover to Harcourt's new album Furnaces. They chat about guns, Hunter S. Thompson, Trump, war, critters and more.

Last of Your Kind Podcast

#1: Ralph Steadman on gonzo, guns, Hunter S. Thompson, Trump, war, critters and more

In tribute to the truly wonderful and sadly departed Gene Wilder, here's my version of Pure Imagination. So many memories. Watching all his films on re-run for the next year. X

Pure Imagination (Vox Mix)

The new single taken from Ed Harcourt's seventh album Wizard Bounce. The album is available to download for free until midday on on 1/4/13 from http://wizardbounce-newalbumbyedharcourt.viinyl.com

About the record, Ed explains:
"Wizard bounce is not a genre it is simply a state of mind. Wizard bounce is a giant mushroom cloud in your soul, the unicorn that takes you to pleasure town. Wizard bounce kidnaps the future  & seduces the past, mocks space & time, changes the fate of idiots & embraces the deathly knell that is now. Come bounce with us until your hair is like a pointy hat.

The dam of change is leaking and I've cut off my thumbs. It is time to put a stop to all this mopey, floppy haired balladry & throw the piano overboard & man up. Wizard bounce is my lucky 7th album and you are witnessing a well kindled rebirth, a sexy dissidence, a timely scream in the face of pompous boredom & meandering mewling. Let lightning strike and turn me into a rabid mangy badger who ambles through the labyrinth of whimsy, cursing & muttering about nothing & everything. Wizaaaaaaaaard......"

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