The Anchoress Share Video For ‘The Exchange’ With Manics’ James Dean Bradfield

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The Anchoress has shared a new video for ‘The Exchange’, featuring Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield.

The song is taken from The Anchoress’ upcoming new album ‘The Art Of Losing’, the follow up to the artist’s debut ‘Confessions of a Romance Novelist’.

The Anchoress (Catherine Anne Davies) invited welsh rocker James Dean Bradfield to appear on the song, having previously guested on the Manics’ 2018 album ‘Resistance Is Futile’.

“It was an intense experience for me,” Bradfield said about working on the track. “The direction was clear but it took me a while to zone in on the feel. It inadvertently helped me in how to sing some of the songs on ‘Even In Exile’. I learnt a new way to approach a song with her help.”

Check out ‘The Exchange’ here:

The new track was produced by Davies, and mixed by Manics producer Dave Eringa. The accompanying cinematic video was made by young filmmaker JJ Eringa – exploring “the exploitation of a young woman trapped inside a purgatorial cycle”.

“We wanted to make a bit of a homage to The Red Shoes,” Catherine Anne Davies said. “We follow her fate as she is forced to play piano until her hands bleed, only to be brought back to life time and time again when she collapses with exhaustion.”

Adding “I was so lucky that James agreed to lend his vocal to this track. It was written as a duet that explores a toxic dynamic created by those that see people as puppets rather than as human beings. When I first pulled his vocal into the finished track I had one of those goosebump moments where you pinch yourself that one of your childhood idols is singing a song that I wrote.”

“The power and emotion in his voice is what makes him one of my all-time favourite singers. He’s a very inquisitive and intelligent musician. The legend that is Sterling Campell (who played drums for David Bowie for decades) also very kindly agreed to guest on the track. He was a dream to work with and he nailed it straight away in a remote session from his studio in New York.”

‘The Art of Losing’ by The Anchoress is released on March 12. Meanwhile, Manic Street Preachers are currently at work on their 14th studio album.