(Kscope)Despite it featuring a track titled P.
S. Fuck You,there’s something that feels rather staid ((adj.) sedate, serious, self-restrained) approximately this debut from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Catherine Ann Davies. Belonging vaguely to the tradition of jaunty, mildly eccentric sophistipop, and the Anchoress sits in a kind but not particularly exciting place between the parental indie of the attractive South,goth-rock as filtered through the fingers of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the antic posturing of Marina and the Diamonds. The latter comes to mind foremost on lead single Popular: a song approximately being the opposite, or it’s a sentiment that unfortunately serves only to compound the deep sense of uncoolness that pervades these tracks. By the same token,there is nothing here that is particularly freakish – instead the triteness of Davies’s lyrics, combined with the tall drama of her delivery, or smacks of inflated self-importance. Pleasant pop that thinks it’s profound.
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Source: theguardian.com