Top tune, amazing voice, great mixing.  That guitar sound on the back remember me good old days ;)

very simple minds in bringing it down then rising things back up again ! :)

Love this. The mix has Mr Draper written all over it.

Great UNIQUE sound in todays cluttered 'Femvox' scene .. keep up the great word Catherine .. looking forward to seeing u Dublin 29th. Nov .. !!

News: The Anchoress announces debut album Confessions Of A Romance Novelist: http://www.drunkenwerewolf.com/blog/the-anchoress-announces-confessions-of-a-romance-novelist/

really like this, reminding me of early Marina & The Diamonds :)

A taste of our roster featuring Ed Harcourt and The Anchoress.

CCCLX Artist Management - Sampler

Taken from the forthcoming album Time of Dust, set for release via CCCLX Music on January 6th 2014.

Ed says:

"One of my earliest memories is seeing Tom from Tom & Jerry dressed as a conductor, tapping the lectern with his baton and whooshing his impressive & mane-like Beethoven style wig before leading his cartoon feline orchestra into some frenetic score. Turns out that Jerry wants to conduct too so they end up fighting for the position. I always felt Jerry was a bit of a dick. He really makes Tom's life a total misery.

Whilst playing the drums on this song I developed a third arm which really helped with the 2000 BPM snare roll. "

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Forthcoming Shows:

October 
21st - Palladium, Malmo, Sweden
23rd - Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland
24th - Uppsala, Svandammshallarna, Sweden
25th - Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden
26th - Gothenburg, Nefertiti, Sweden
27th - Oslo, John Dee, Norway
31st - Geneva International Film Festival, Switzerland

November
15th - Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK

Photo by Steve Gullick.

The Saddest Orchestra (It Only Plays For You) by Ed Harcourt

“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

Pre-order Ed Harcourt's new single: ‘In My Time of Dust’ http://itun.es/i6642XC (released 19th May 2014 via CCCLX)

ED HARCOURT
New Single: In My Time of Dust
Released: 19th May 2014

Following the critical praise for his new mini-album, and the silver-disc awarded success of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s new album (which he produced and co-wrote), British songwriter Ed Harcourt confirms new single ‘Time of Dust’, which includes a brand new track ‘Sweet Malaise’ featuring Ren Harvieu (hear it http://youtu.be/O0-PDxCBego​ ).  

‘Time of Dust’ is the title track of Harcourt’s 28-minute long mini-album which was released earlier this year on CCCLX (the new label set-up by Drowned in Sound’s editor). It was described by one scribe as “cinematic hip-hop”, by another as “post-grave” and the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis talked of the track’s “gothic grandeur”. Elsewhere, comparisons have veered from Eels to James Blake via Elbow and that Tom Waits chap.

Like the rest of the mini-album, there are still Ed’s trademark pianos and bitter-sweet lyrical twists, but a darkness has descended and the record marks the beginning of a slightly gloomier new sound. 

Thirteen years ago, Harcourt’s career began with a mini-album named Maplewood, “Time of Dust feels not unlike its distant cousin” says Ed. “I’ll soon be heading into the studio with Flood (Nine Inch Nails, PJ Harvey, etc) to work on an album of evil songs, but before I set sail for the edge of the world, I wanted to break people in gently. Think of Time of Dust as a piece of the map I’ll be using to navigate the fog and fire. Or maybe it’s the creak of the floorboard before the wolf pounces?”

2013 was a busy year for Harcourt. From co-writing and producing a new album for Sophie Ellis-Bextor, to festival appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, Latitude, and a headline slot at End of the Road, his dog-eared diary has never seen so much action. Recently, Harcourt has also been musical director for Burberry’s London Fashion Week party and Beck’s Song Book at the Barbican, written songs with amongst others Kathryn Williams and Lisa Marie-Presley; composed soundtracks for three movies due in 2014, recorded collaborations with Rae & Christian and Nouvelle Vague’s Melanie Pain, and brewed his own beer (an ‘Edwardian Brown Ale’) with Signature Brew, which after the initial test run of 3000 bottles sold out, the production is being ramped up. 2013 also saw his sixth studio album, Back Into the Woods, released to much acclaim, and then there was that #WIZARDBOUNCE “album” which he gave away for April Fool’s Day...

Praise for Time of Dust:
"Alluring." - The Independent ****
"Sensational." - The Sunday Times
"Time of Dust is bleaker than his past work, marrying a dark heart with epic hooks and choruses like a darker Elbow." - The Guardian ****
"A masterly lurch to the dark side by the multi-talented maestro" - Uncut
"Brooding, theatrical elegance with a glitchy twist… A dusky delight." - NME
"Ornate romantic balladry… curls around the listener like tendrils of smoke." - FT
"As warm and dark as the real ale he brews." The Times ****
"Part-time brewer of dark ales, full-time composer of dark tales." - Scottish Daily Express
"A gorgeous noirish set of cinematic songs with a bittersweet emotional core." - Telegraph

http://edharcourt.com


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In My Time Of Dust - Ed Harcourt

six songs commemorating my six years in the northwest. 
dedicated to Mom, Da, & Rhea.

run so deep

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Innerlove puts their emo twang on this cover of the 2018 hit from Dijon, "Nico's Red Truck". Don't forget to listen to Innerlove's debut album, Roscoe, out now on Refresh Records.

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Nico's Red Truck

Innerlove - "Nico's Red Truck"

Nef Medina - Here's Your Perfect

Forgive Me (Down The Hall Version)

sher doruff
" a reverie on factual and fictive memory."

vocals: sher doruff, x baczewska
guitar: sher doruff
music box, electric guitar, bass: victor sanders
sound engineering: recorded by victor sanders; mixed by victor sanders and care of the cow

What Is Blue

good for it

Under the Autumn Sun

When Your Heart Is Weak

My best friend made me this song. And once I heard it I fell in love with it. I’ve never expected my best friend to make a song for me. I appreciate this so much and cherish this song. Thank you 🫶🏼

Sincerelyyourbestfriend (Ft. R3D)

Son of a Gun

Christmas Without You (feat. Mylezelite)

Ed Harcourt - Take It To The Grave

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

 "...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.

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