Anchoress –

As we once were

As We Once Were is the third studio album from twice Welsh Music Prize nominated artist and producer The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) - This new record is the long-awaited follow-up to the UK Top 40 album The Art Of Losing and features an all-star cast of guest vocalist, including Mercury Music Prize nominees Hannah Peel and Welsh-Cornish musician Gwenno, long-time collaborator James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers also contributes vocals and electric guitar on 'Throw Over Your Man' - a song inspired by the love letters between literary legends Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West - and newcomer Eaves Wilder (Secretly Canadian) duets on 'Damsels'. Three-times Music Producers Guild nominated Davies created the new album at Black Lodge Studios, while being given access to Pete Townshend's collection of vintage analogue synthesisers to produce an epic 14-track widescreen exploration of the nature of time and transformation.

Country of Pressing	UK
Artist	Anchoress
Released	2026
Music Genre	Pop / Rock
Label	LAST NIGHT GLASGOW
Condition	New
UPC	787480474353
SKU	al-787480474353

1.1 Du Temps Perdu (Introduction)
1.2 Throw Over Your Man
1.3 I Had a Baby Not a Lobotomy
1.4 Damsels
1.5 As We Once Were
1.6 Happiness Don't Show Up Like It Should (Prologue)
1.7 All I Really Want Is Peace
1.8 Stop the World
1.9 Du Temps Perdu (Reprise)
1.10 What You Did
1.11 All Fall Down
1.12 Hand to the Tide
1.13 She Knows Her Place
1.14 Happiness Don't Show Up Like It Should (Epilogue)