Catherine Anne Davies has been making dark, intriguing music informed by her literary passions — she has a PhD and a published treatise on Walt Whitman’s “queer children” with influences like Bowie and Kate Bush. A new persona has energized her: The music she’s making as The Anchoress is delightfully theatrical and sharp as a bloody blade. “One For Sorrow,” her most assertive statement so far, takes on the institution of marriage with a moodiness that Siouxsie Sioux would admire. The Anchoress is currently completing two albums and touring with Simple Minds; Davies has many illustrious fans in her corner, and she just might prove to be Wales’s (much more explicitly feminist) answer to Lana Del Rey.
Next Release: “Confessions of a Romance Novelist” will be out in the summer.
The Fat Angel Sings 