The Art Of Losing - The Anchoress

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François Rainville In few words, an outstanding album. One of the best of 2021. Favorite track: The Exchange.

Riverside77 Every note on the album is nothing short of intoxicating. Her voice and her music merge to give a beauty to life's melancholy. Nearly impossible to stop listening.

Phil Henry Like all good music it takes a few listens to appreciate the depth in these songs. Great to see it featured in many end of year lists Favorite track: Let It Hurt.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The Art of Losing Expanded Edition is released on March 4th 2022 to mark the first anniversary of the album. This 19 track CD includes 5 additional brand new previously unheard acoustic tracks specially recorded for this release.

Preorders from my Bandcamp will come with a special limited edition hand-stamped library card exclusive to my store.

The new expanded CD edition comes complete with alternative cover art, special edition coloured spine, plus a new 24 page colour lyric booklet with alternate artwork, including previously unseen photographs.

Each CD is hand signed by Catherine. This preorder will ship on March 4th 2022.

THE ART OF LOSING (EXPANDED EDITION)
Tracklisting:

1. Moon Rise (Prelude)
2. Let It Hurt
3. The Exchange feat. James Dean Bradfield
4. Show Your Face
5. The Art of Losing
6. All Farewells Should Be Sudden
7. All Shall Be Well
8. Unravel
9. Paris
10. 5am
11. The Heart Is a Lonesome Hunter
12. My Confessor
13. With The Boys
14. Moon (An End)

BONUS TRACKS:

15. Show Your Face (Piano Version)
16. Let It Hurt (String Quartet Version)
17. All Farewells Should Be Sudden (Acoustic Version)
18. The Art of Losing (Acoustic Lounge Version)
19. The Exchange (Solo Piano Version)

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Signed 140g double vinyl in gatefold sleeve with lyric printed inners + Ltd Edition Book Stack Art Card

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
1CD digipack with 24 page booklet + Signed Art Card featuring the back cover artwork "bookstack" artwork.

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1.	Moon Rise (Prelude) 02:50	buy track
2.	Let It Hurt 03:36	buy track
3.	The Exchange 04:18	buy track
4.	Show Your Face 04:27	buy track
5.	The Art of Losing 04:06	buy track
6.	All Farewells Should Be Sudden 05:01	buy track
7.	All Shall Be Well 01:39	buy track
8.	Unravel 04:04	buy track
9.	Paris 02:00	buy track
10.	5am 04:02	buy track
11.	The Heart is a Lonesome Hunter 04:05	buy track
12.	My Confessor 03:56	buy track
13.	With The Boys 05:56	buy track
14.	Moon (An End) 02:51	buy track

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Written and produced by Davies, the album features guest appearances from James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) and Sterling Campbell (David Bowie, Duran Duran).

“Davies has given a powerful, challenging voice to her grief.”
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OBSERVER
“Recalls fellow experimentalists Bowie, Kate Bush, the Cure, Talk Talk and Tori Amos… A brave and inspirational album. And what a remarkable artist.” SUNDAY TIMES (Album of the Week)
"Cuts latter-day Bowie art rock shapes." ☆☆☆☆ MOJO
"Shining alt-pop from an artisan of darkness. A bold voice in the darkest shadows." ☆☆☆☆ RECORD COLLECTOR
“A stellar achievement.” 9/10 THE QUIETUS
"A defiant and glorious second album.... An intensely compelling record."☆☆☆☆ CLASSIC POP 
"Swaggering synthpop... Infectiously buoyant. Successfully tackles the spectrum of human emotions." ☆☆☆☆ UNCUT
“Processes grief in its many forms on the determined and rapturous The Art of Losing. 9/10.” THE LINE OF BEST FIT (Album of the Week)
"With a croak in her emphatic delivery that is reminiscent of Chrissie Hynde, and her earnest, romantic musical style recalling Kate Bush, this is a tackling of heavy themes through the medium of serious, accomplished art rock." ☆☆☆☆ THE TIMES
“Skewers the messy, chaotic nature of grief. Intense…” ☆☆☆☆ NME
“Davies’ voice, like Annie Lennox’s, mixes vulnerability with verve. She gets to the heart of grief, showing it’s not so much five stages as six emotions at the same time. And she turns it into something life-enhancing.” ☆☆☆☆ MAIL ON SUNDAY (Album of the Week)
"Intense, insistent and inspired. Existential torment has never sounded so alluring…" ☆☆☆☆☆ PROG (Album of the Month)
“A lyrically bold, musically lush art rock investigation of grief… like Chrissie Hynde and David Bowie on a synth-pop death trip.” THE TELEGRAPH
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… and this is a very strong record. Clever and Compelling.” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 MUSIC
“A masterpiece… the spooked urgency of Scott Walker’s Nite Flights & the bitter wisdom of Marianne Faithfull’s A Secret Life.” PETE PAPHIDES

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released March 12, 2021

Written & Produced by Catherine Anne Davies

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The Anchoress UK

Welsh multi-instrumentalist and producer Catherine Anne Davies is The Anchoress.

Her albums, ‘Confessions of A Romance Novelist’ and ‘ The Art of Losing’ were released on Kscope to widespread critical acclaim and named amongst The Sunday Times and Guardian critics’ Albums of the Year, HMV’s Welsh Album of the Year, Best Newcomer at the PROG awards, and two nominations for the Welsh Music Prize. ... more

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