Confessions of a Romance Novelist
Studio album by The Anchoress
Released	January 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)
Genre	Indie rock
Producer	Catherine Anne Davies, Paul Draper
The Anchoress chronology
One for Sorrow (2014) Confessions of a Romance Novelist (2016) The Art of Losing (2021)

Confessions of a Romance Novelist is the debut album from The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies. Released on 15 January 2016, the album received a favourable critique from The Guardian.^[1]

The album was named amongst the Guardian critics' Albums of the Year, won HMV's Welsh Album of the Year, Best Newcomer at the PROG awards, and a nomination for Welsh Music Prize.^[2][3][4]

Mojo described Davies as being in possession of "a devastatingly powerful voice".^[5] The Observer called it "a blackly witty break up album...compelling", while PROG magazine described the record as "Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love updated for the 21st century".^[6]

On the album, Catherine plays a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, flute, omnichord, mellotron, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, and celeste, as well as sampling church bells, and an orchestra of typewriters.^[7]

All tracks composed by Catherine Anne Davies and Paul Draper; except where noted.

1. "Long Year" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:52
2. "What Goes Around" - 4:17
3. "Doesn't Kill You" - 4:40
4. "You and Only You" (featuring Paul Draper) - 4:09
5. "One for Sorrow" - 3:24
6. "P.S. Fuck You" - 3:19
7. "Popular" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:57
8. "Bury Me" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:43
9. "Intermission (Notes to the Editor)" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 2:09
10. "Waiting to Breathe" (Catherine Anne Davies) - 3:03
11. "Chip on Your Shoulder" - 2:58
12. "Confessions of a Romance Novelist" - 6:26
13. "Rivers of Ice" (Simple Minds, Iain McLachlan) - 3:41

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