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Erase

Erase (The Anchoress Remix)

"Davies is making music like nobody else at the moment" - NME

Written by Catherine Anne Davies. 
Produced by Paul Draper & Catherine Anne Davies. 
Mixed by Gareth Jones.

Taken from the One For Sorrow EP. Release date: 3rd November 2014.

an·cho·ress [ang-ker-is] noun

A woman who is an anchorite - a person who lives in seclusion, esp. a religious recluse; hermit; one who has retired from the world.

The ‘One For Sorrow’ EP is the second release from The Anchoress - a new project from Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies, co-produced with Paul Draper (Mansun). The dark southern gothic of ‘Long Year’ offers fans a first taste of the EP, and is now streaming on NME.com

‘Long Year’ was mixed by Gareth Jones (Merchandise/Depeche Mode/Interpol) and will be released as part of the ‘One For Sorrow’ EP on 3rd November 2014 via Hiraeth/PIAS as a limited edition 12” vinyl and special edition CD with romance novel. The EP follows debut single ‘What Goes Around’ - which riffed on everything from Newtonian law to medieval philosophy, as you might expect from a musician with a PhD - and is the second taste of the forthcoming debut album 'Confessions of a Romance Novelist' (due for release in early 2015).

Paul 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, 1 arrest, 3 pianos, 40 songs and 1 very patient engineer… and you get some way to understanding what a long road it has been….”

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PRAISE FOR 'WHAT GOES AROUND':
 
“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 one hell of an introduction, mixing epic Broadway strings with military drums, a sprinkling of Disney pianos, menacing slithers of riffs, and lyrics that make you fear ever messing with womankind." - DROWNED IN SOUND

“Shimmering pop heart and infectious hooks” - GoldFlake Paint

“A powerful opening gambit from The Anchoress” - Louder Than War

“Bites like Aimee Mann and will leave you chomping for more” - Societe Perrier ‘5 hottest acts’




One for Sorrow

Long Year

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Miniskirt

have you seen the disgrace?
the world wears the dawn like a day
like a painting of a face
whose features fade away
puts it's mirrors in the dark
points at your back and starts to laugh

in the meeting of this mire
i awake as if on fire
no my dawn was not put out
by some mistake was not put out
unlike the dawn was not put out
and now it will never be put out
there will be music all around
when they put me in the ground
and the drunk whilst laughing, spoke
these words that i have wrote

'you look like a sad painting' he sighed
'on both sides of the sky'
as the room it roamed a throng
and the piano played a song

outside the world is crucified
you must find something to be sacrificed to
to your love
or to your lie

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have you seen the disgrace?
the world wears the dawn like a day
like a painting of a face
whose features fade away
puts it's mirrors in the dark
points at your back and starts to laugh

in the meeting of this mire
i awake as if on fire
no my dawn was not put out
by some mistake was not put out
unlike the dawn was not put out
and now it will never be put out
there will be music all around
when they put me in the ground
and the drunk whilst laughing, spoke
these words that i have wrote

'you look like a sad painting' he sighed
'on both sides of the sky'
as the room it roamed a throng
and the piano played a song

outside the world is crucified
you must find something to be sacrificed to
to your love
or to your lie


Suicide Songs

You Look Like A Sad Painting On  Both Sides Of The Sky

Podcast 71 is The Anchoress special, feat. music from the debut album 'Confessions of a Romance Novelist' as well as an interview with Catherine herself
SOUNDCLOUD: http://bit.ly/1JYoFzp
ITUNES: http://apple.co/1k6Oukx
MIXCLOUD: http://bit.ly/1kLwfS9
PODBEAN: http://bit.ly/1MQulpS

We start with an introduction to Catherine Anne Davies PhD, Simple Minds’ keyboardist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, PKA as The Anchoress for her debut album out now on Kscope, ‘Confessions of a Romance Novelist’ – which is “sneaking big ideas past the listeners of daytime radio” (Q Magazine).
 
Some of the LP was co-produced and written with Mansun’s creative force Paul Draper (Catherine is currently helping Paul with his first solo album) so we’ll hear how the two met - as well as Catherine’s forthright opinions on gender in rock.
 
PLUS a track from the current album from Steven Wilson AND an update on the current Kscope artists on tour.

In this podcast:
THE ANCHORESS (from Confessions of a Romance Novelist)
- Long Year
- Bury Me
- Confessions of a Romance Novelist
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Podcast Episode Seventy One - The Anchoress

Postcards From

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Prog-popster The Anchoress (aka Catherine AD) celebrates the vinyl release of her debut album 'Confessions Of A Romance Novelist' with a special one-off live show at Kings Place.

Sat 17 Dec, 8pm
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 "...equal parts prog and pop,  oddball & accessible."  NME
"...a flawless and sophisticated hyper-literate pop record." GQ
 "...delightfully theatrical and sharp as a bloody blade. Wales' much more explicitly feminist answer to Lana Del Rey.” ANN POWERS, NPR
“...a literate, ambitious and engrossing return... a brooding yet patiently anthemic cut.” CLASH
 “...as comfortable at CBGB’s as in Broadway theatres.” LES INROCKUPTIBLES
"... a sprawl of dark southern gothic."  THE QUIETUS
"...Davies is making music like nobody else at the moment."  NME 
“...a dark, intricate and intelligent debut… an album of distinctive sound and ambitious ideals.” LOUDER THAN WAR 

an·cho·ress [ang-ker-is] noun
A woman who is an anchorite - a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit; one who has retired from the world.

The Anchoress is a new project from Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies.

Long Year

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