The Art Of Losing

The Anchoress - The Art Of Losing
Critic Score
Based on 12 reviews
2021 Ratings: #52 / 753
User Score
Based on 114 ratings
2021 Rank: #776
Liked by 4 people
March 12, 2021 / Release Date
LP / Format
Kscope / Label
Art Rock, Art Pop / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Arts Desk
The Anchoress speaks for us all at a time when the perilous balance of power between the sexes looks ever more fragile. That she can do it while also entertaining and enticing us to sing along is some feat.
90
musicOMH
The Anchoress is stepping out of the shadow of her famous friends to show that she’s an almighty talent in her own right.
90
The Line of Best Fit
Davies’ fight back is well worth remembering in those times of grave need.
85
Spectrum Culture
These 14 tracks variously seek answers and meaning, refuting the notion that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
80
NME
It captures the unpredictable, spinning chaos of grief with a searing precision that’s hard to turn away from.
80
Under the Radar
This album moves and inspires rather than being a “difficult listen” due to its subject matter.
80
Clash
There is never any doubt in her authorial voice and ability to commandingly tell her own story, with all the tragedies and triumphs contained therein.
80
Mojo
Throughout, a recurring Satie-like piano motif floats in and out, soothing the raw emotions.
80
The Observer
The Welsh multi-instrumentalist navigates a small battalion of sorrows on this richly wrought second album.
80
Record Collector
Catherine Anne Davies reasserts herself as a commanding alt-gothic solo force on her second album as The Anchoress.
80
The Forty-Five
Davies draws together all kinds of loss, individual and collective, to reach a point of emotional focus and musical thrill: a gathering of griefs, untangled and laid out to dry.
70
Uncut
The album successfully tackles the spectrum of human emotions experienced after trauma.
AngelHerntz
63

Estoy a favor de que los artistas usen la música como vehículo para el reclamo y la disconformidad social, de hecho lo prefiero a que sean sólo meros divertimentos sin sentido, cuestionables, o propiciadores de ideas toxicas y peligrosamente contagiosas.
Es necesario que discursos propuestos como en The Art Of Losing sean compartidos por los demás, es muy seguro que algo así no hubiese podido ser lanzado algún tiempo atrás por la mentalidad de la ... read more

NTTR
65

The Anchoress - The Art of Losing

Genre: Art Pop
Country: UK

Final Verdict: 65% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 69th / 235

Highlight: The Exchange

Made me think of:
Hooverphonic
Paatos
Tori Amos
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Phoebe Bridgers

fblthp
NR

The instrumentals are good. I feel this would have been better as just that - an instrumental release. This album just doesn’t work for me. Nothing really fits or makes sense. Maybe the vocals need to grow in me, but I don’t really see them doing that. I also wish the songs had a less traditional structure and continued the style of the prelude. This kind of gave me Florence + The Machine vibes for some reason. Maybe I’m just having a moment, idk.

ArtQutility
35

Naaaah.
Sonically beautiful, but otherwise - pretentious and out of place.

everythingafter
40

I feel like the singer is trying too hard to be Tori Amos, and it's not really working. Some of the instrumentation is pretty, but most of these songs lack melody, nor do they have any energy or movement.

lauange
76

best : let it hurt, show your face

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Added on: November 4, 2020