‘One For Sorrow’ is today’s featured video over on RORMIX…
Drowned In Sound Best of November Playlist
Our friends over at Drowned in Sound have included the Philip Reach mix of One For Sorrow in their November playlist, along with some other rather good tunes!! You can listen to the best of November playlist is over here: http://bit.ly/DiSnov14
Clash Magazine Track by Track
Read a track by track guide to the One For Sorrow EP on Clash now and get your ears around Philip Reach’s reworking of ‘One For Sorrow’ (which features some rather prominent use of producer Paul Draper’s glorious falsetto backing vocals…)
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-the-anchoress-one-for-sorrow-ep
Q Magazine Feature
I wrote a little piece for Q Magazine about my favourite wedding dress videos, including some style tips from pop’s finest…
Probably the only place on the internet where you’ll find Katy Perry and Blood Red Shoes sharing pixels…
Read it in full here:
http://www.qthemusic.com/6505/artist-playist-the-anchoress-five-best-music-videos-featuring-wedding-dresses/
BBC Introducing Mixtape
The Philip Reach version of ‘One For Sorrow’ features on this week’s 6Music BBC Introducing mixtape from Tom Robinson. Thanks to Tom for his continued support!
Listen to the mixtape and download in full here:
The One For Sorrow EP is out November 3rd on 12" vinyl, limited CD and digital EP.
VINYL
The beautiful 12" vinyl EP designed by Michael Speed.
Available from all good record stores, including the following online stores:
CD
This special collector’s edition ribbon-wrapped bundle includes a limited 4-track CD of the One For Sorrow EP, alongside a personalized hand stamped library card from The Anchoress, and a hand-picked vintage romance novel (as used in the “book-bath” which featured in the EP artwork and promo photo shoot).
Buy the ltd edition signed CD here.
DIGITAL
The EP is also available from iTunes, Amazon, and all other digital stores, including an iTunes bonus track remix by Ghosting Season.
The One For Sorrow EP by The Anchoress is out November 3rd 2014
The Video…
So here it is. The video for ‘One For Sorrow’.
It’s made up of archive footage that I compiled from the Prelinger archive of instructional films from the 1950s on marriage, human reproduction and domesticity… The finished video is a Homeland-inspired collaboration with the amazing guys at Beatcast. It sees my original film collage projected onto a series of “brides through the ages”, also featuring my not-at-all-Miss-Havisham-esque extensive vintage wedding dress collection….
In the NME…
I wrote a piece for the NME today about the music of Twin Peaks & what the overused term “Lynchian” really means…
Read it in full here: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-music-of-twin-peaks-dissected-what-does-lynchian-actually-mean
One For Sorrow on the BBC 6Music Playlist
We only went and bloody won the Rebel Playlist! Thank you to everyone who voted. YOU did this! Listen up to BBC 6Music to hear ‘One For Sorrow’ being played all week.
This week has been a surreal one…
On Monday, Simple Minds revealed a secret that I’ve been keeping very close to my chest for a few months now…I’ll be joining them on tour throughout 2015! How this all came about is something of a distant echo of the duet I co-wrote for The Dark Flowers album a few year’s back which also featured Jim Kerr… You never know where things might lead! I’m looking forward to seeing some bookshops and art galleries around Europe. Pitstop suggestions welcome…
Yesterday I also found out that “One For Sorrow” (from the forthcoming EP) is up for the BBC 6Music Rebel Playlist. This is voted for by YOU, the music-loving public. If you could spare a moment between now and midnight this Sunday evening (and maybe ask your friends, ex-lovers and your sister’s dogs to vote too…) if we win the vote it means that the song gets played on all the 6Music daytime shows for a whole week! It takes five seconds to vote here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072lb2
I’d be very grateful indeed if you did : )
If you haven’t already pre-ordered the EP, all the details are here: www.iamtheanchoress.com/music. There’s still a few limited editions remaining.
Catherine xox
p.s. Here’s the new Simple Minds video:
In The Quietus…
“I call him the lizard man…” The Quietus have just published the essay I penned about working with Paul Draper and how the album came together…
http://thequietus.com/articles/16327-the-anchoress-long-year-catherine-ad-paul-draper-essay
“Davies is making music like nobody else at the moment…” - NME
“The Anchoress spins complex, emotionally gripping sagas” - Clash
“As unique and insidious a pop song as I’ve heard in eons!” - Adam Walton, BBC Wales
“ A slow-burning, slinky, sophisticated helping of brooding pop noir, highlighting a fabulously narcotic vocal which prowls and curls itself around a song that is sinister, seductive and hypnotic.” - Von Pip
NME premieres Long Year…
It’s been an exciting few days. NME have premiered my song ‘Long Year’ - a first taste of the forthcoming One For Sorrow EP.
Huge thanks also to Steve Lamacq for the first radio play on his 6Music show!
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/listen-the-anchoress-returns-with-the-haunting-long-year
The One For Sorrow EP will be released on November 3rd via Hiraeth/PIAS.The EP will be available as a 12” vinyl from all good record stores, digital download (with an iTunes exclusive remix from Ghosting Season), and a limited edition signed CD/romance novel edition, exclusively from Bandcamp, now available to preorder:
Ltd Signed CD/Book Bundle: PREORDER HERE
iTunes exclusive 5 track EP: BUY HERE
12” Vinyl:
PRESS: gillian@hallornothing.com
ONLINE/RADIO: matthew@enganche.co.uk
GENERAL: iamtheanchoress@gmail.com
In great company here with Perrier’s pick of the five hottest acts. Thanks guys! http://sperrier.com/1o5F1Y0
Double playlist action for the single!
The Anchoress is Artist of the Week on BBC Radio Wales. Listen back to Catherine’s interview with Eleri Sion.
It’s finally here! After the year from hell and the week from Hades, it’s release day. I’m certainly due some good karma… ‘What Goes Around’ is out today. Get it from iTunes here - http://georiot.co/47Ov
“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’
The single has been added to the XFM playlist!!!