- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Pop'
- Release Date: '25.4.25.'
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Communion by The Anchoress is being re-issued for the first time since its original limited release in 2011. This is the first time it's been available on Vinyl. The Anchoress is Catherine Ann Davis a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and singer who has recently been opening for The Manic Street Preachers and Xan Tyler among others. The album was recorded at Dave Stewarts legendary Church Studios in Crouch End, with her all female but un-named string section. The album was produced by Liam Howe in a single afternoon session, engineered by Rich Wilkinson and mixed by Jon Astley.
The album opens with Waiting To Breathe a piano led rumination on helpless feelings at the end of a relationship, hoping to move forward but feeling trapped, the strings add sparse feelings of desolation as Catherine pours out her heart.
The Heart Wants To Be A Hammer gently evokes the pains and sorrow of love going wrong, too much possession, control rather than love, she gave you her heart and you crushed it with a hammer, no amount of beautiful strings or piano can cure the pain.
Over And Over no matter what you may think, she never really loved you, this is perfect to listen too while drowning your woes in red wine, in a room full of candles, she makes clear she doesn't want to be just another notch, she needs to be much more than that.
Yeats Is On Mine make sure you know plenty of his poetry if you want to get closer to The Anchoress, this gracefully flows, she conjures up imagery of love and the price she has to pay, for what everybody takes from her.
Going Wrong is what has happened to her love once more, but musically this is perfectly right, a beautiful elegiac feeling of loss for another relationship that's been wrecked, all she is left with is this immense feeling of sadness.
Telephone is a scream of anger for an ex that just won't take the hint and is bombarding her with endless phone calls, filling up her answering machine, she's had enough, all the pain is leeching out, it's like he thinks she's a Cornflake Girl or something, if she plays this to him maybe he'll get the hint, especially as her vocals get more impassioned.
The album closes with the bonus demo of Grow Out that has yet more desolate feelings of romantic entanglements being dissected in her search for a deeper love.
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