The art of losing

"Throughout, 'The Art of Losing' is peppered with carefully collaged references: musically, it recalls the likes of avant-garde songwriter Scott Walker, the neo-classical composer Max Richter, and David Bowie's industrial Berlin period ... In all of this, there is no astounding moment of revelation or lesson learned - instead The Anchoress says something important about how we frequently turn to art as a kind of mirror in our most devastating moments. And as a record 'The Art of Losing' also holds up a reflection which is both painful and familiar - it captures the unpredictable, spinning chaos of grief with a searing precision that's hard to turn away from".

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"Catherine Anne Davies behandler smerte og tab på et album, der cementerer hendes musikalske stjernevej ... Anne Davies er et sjældent omfangsrigt talent. Foruden at have en ph.d i queer-litteratur og teori spiller hun de fleste af instrumenterne selv (...) Davies står udelukkende selv for produktionen, og samtlige sange og tekster bærer hendes navn. I en tid, hvor en hær af sangskrivere og producere står som team bag næsten hver eneste udgivelse i moderne pop-land, er det lige så sjældent, som det er imponerende ... Catherine Anne Davies har mere råstyrke end de fleste af sine nutidige mandlige kolleger. Både tekstmæssigt og musikalsk".

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