"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".