The Art Of Losing - The Anchoress

March 12, 2021

Alternative / Rock / Dream Pop

#Rock#art rock#dream pop#female vocals#prog#United Kingdom

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.” ☆☆☆☆ 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