Confessions Of A Romance Novelist = Papersleeve = (CD)
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, PhD and producer Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) sums up her album's overall concept as, "Deconstructing normative ideas of love and romance. With each song sung by a different character, it's what you might call a musical ghost writing of sorts."Co-producer and collaborator Draper has helped Davies capture a collection of songs on which she has played a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, flute, omnichord, mellotron, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, and celeste (as well as multi-tracking up to 25 vocal harmonies on some songs).The creation Confessions Of A Romance Novelist was not without it's setbacks and was interrupted by a series of events that threatened to derail the project completely. Catherine says, "This album has been made on a wing and a prayer, lots of favours, one car crash, one death, one broken hand, and a lot of patience on so many parts. Stir in 3 jobs, 4 studios, 2 arrests, 3 pianos, 40 songs and 1 very patient engineer - and you get some way to understanding what a long road it has been."
01 Long Year 3:52 02 What Goes Around 4:17 03 Doesn't Kill You 4:40 04 You And Only You 4:09 05 One For Sorrow 3:24 06 P.s. Fuck You 3:19 07 Popular 3:57 08 Bury Me 3:43 09 Intermission (notes To The Editor) 2:09 10 Waiting To Breathe 3:03 11 Chip On Your Shoulder 2:58 12 Confessions Of A Romance Novelist 6:26