Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler
Release Date: 16 October 2020
Label: Needle Mythology
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 195081809557
Genres: Rock
Description
Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, is proud to announce the very first release of brand new music on the label. 'In Memory Of My Feelings' is the result of a one-off collaboration between Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler. The album was recorded over writing and recording sessions covering a four year period, but amounting to just fifteen days in total. Prior to the creation of the record, the two had never met.
There are ten songs featured in total on 'In Memory Of My Feelings'. Key tracks include the unearthly end-of-days address The Breakdown, the triumphant four-to-the-floor excoriations of Sabotage (Looks So Easy) and the luxuriant glam ache of No More Tears To Cry. Work on In Memory Of My Feelings was completed in 2014, but extraneous commitments forced Catherine and Bernard to postpone its release indefinitely.
Of the record Butler says: "I'd got used to the idea that the record might never emerge. Occasionally, I'd listen to it on my headphones if I was on the bus, I always had the same thought, "I wish I could go to a record shop and buy this." Davies adds: "For me, the best thing is that we still don't know each other that well. The songs were the conversation."Catherine is best known for her work as The Anchoress. Her debut album Confessions Of A Romance Novelist was released to widespread critical acclaim in 2016 and was named amongst the Guardian critics' Albums of the Year, earned her the Best Newcomer prize at the PROG Awards and was also named HMV's Welsh Album of the Year. Since then she has played in the touring line-ups of Manic Street Preachers and Simple Minds. The second Anchoress album is scheduled for release early next year.
Bernard Butler is a founding member of Suede, with whom he co-wrote and performed two era-defining albums. He then went on to enjoy top ten success with McAlmont & Butler and as a solo artist before focusing on writing and production work with artists such as Bert Jansch, The Libertines & Duffy...
Tracklisting
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Iraina Mancini
Tanita Tikaram
The Lilac Time
Butcher Boy
Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Iraina Mancini
Greg Freeman
The Armory Show
Apocalypse Orchestra
The Blackbirds
Hawkwind
The War on Drugs
Hands Like Houses
Wasia Project
