Wasn't too keen when I first it. However,.it has really grown on me. Brilliant stuff.

This is a grower, annoyingly catchy, I give up... I REALLY like this !!!

hits the ears running and doesn't flag at all - pacy and hook-filled. Like the slow false-ending, great arrangement

reminds me so much to what I used to listen on the 90's and that's good!

The attention to detail is wonderful. Everything comes together perfectly, a big hit if there is any justice

“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

 "...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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