Confessions of a Romance Novelist

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Confessions of a Romance Novelist
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)
Genre Indie rock
Producer Catherine Anne Davies, Paul Draper
The Anchoress chronology
One for Sorrow
(2014)
Confessions of a Romance Novelist
(2016)
The Art of Losing
(2021)

Confessions of a Romance Novelist is the debut album from The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies. Released on 15 January 2016, the album received a favourable critique from The Guardian . [1]

The album was named amongst the Guardian critics' Albums of the Year, won HMV's Welsh Album of the Year, Best Newcomer at the PROG awards, and a nomination for Welsh Music Prize. [2] [3] [4]

Mojo described Davies as being in possession of "a devastatingly powerful voice". [5] The Observer called it "a blackly witty break up album...compelling", while PROG magazine described the record as "Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love updated for the 21st century". [6]

On the album, Catherine plays a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, flute, omnichord, mellotron, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, and celeste, as well as sampling church bells, and an orchestra of typewriters. [7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Catherine Anne Davies and Paul Draper; except where noted.

  1. "Long Year" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:52
  2. "What Goes Around" - 4:17
  3. "Doesn't Kill You" - 4:40
  4. "You and Only You" (featuring Paul Draper) - 4:09
  5. "One for Sorrow" - 3:24
  6. "P.S. Fuck You" - 3:19
  7. "Popular" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:57
  8. "Bury Me" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:43
  9. "Intermission (Notes to the Editor)" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 2:09
  10. "Waiting to Breathe" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:03
  11. "Chip on Your Shoulder" - 2:58
  12. "Confessions of a Romance Novelist" - 6:26
  13. "Rivers of Ice" (Simple Minds, Iain McLachlan) - 3:41

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