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Garnering comparisons to John Grant and Lana Del Rey, The Anchoresss concept driven compositions have been the talk of the music press in 2016. PROG magazine whove nominated her for best-newcomer at their awards went as far as proclaiming her debut album as Kate Bushs Hounds Of Love updated for the 21st century.
This new edition includes a bonus disc of 5 brand new acoustic versions, featuring string arrangements from Gillian Wood. The 2CD set will be presented in a digipack with 16 page colour booklet.
Her singles have received heavy rotation from BBC 6Music and lit up the web, reaching number 2 on the HypeMachine and number 11 on AppleMusics video chart. The Anchoress debut album has been lauded by the music press, racked as one of HMVs best albums of 2016 and has found fans in the likes of Peter Gabriel (who selected it for his album club), and the Manic Street Preachers, whom she supported and duetted with on Little Baby Nothing at this summers Eden Sessions.
The Anchoress has also appeared on BBC Radio 4s Womans Hour, BBC Radio 3s The Verb, been interviewed by MOJO and The Guardian, and now finds herself nominated in this years PROG Awards best newcomer category. Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, PhD & producer Catherine Anne Davies (who also plays in the live line-up of Simple Minds) sums up her albums overall concept as, Partly a concept album narrated by the titular potboiler author, partly a series of imaginary character pieces, and partly a deeply personal outpouring from someone whos been through a fair amount of personal hell.
Whichever way you choose to describe The Anchoress compelling debut Confessions Of A Romance Novelist (co-produced by Mansuns frontman Paul Draper) one things for certain, this is something truly different.
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