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Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler share new track "Ten Good Reasons"

17 September 2020, 11:38 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler are back with "Ten Good Reasons", the third single from their upcoming collaborative album In Memory Of My Feelings.

"Ten Good Reasons" follows on from earlier releases "Sabotage (Looks So Easy)" and "The Breakdown".

Davies says the new single is "A celebration of the age-old battle between heart and mind; the illogical and the pragmatist; the requirement of the compulsive mind to make a list before you make any decision. It’s about doubting yourself and your sense of reality."

Butler adds, "Catherine & I were put together initially to write inoffensive sweet odes - neither of us have the patience for that. When we met again on the 'side b' of our sessions I could sense anger and defiance in Catherine’s experience, so I tried to give her a brutal and beautiful soundscape in which she could express herself. We’re both much better at brutal and beautiful."

In Memory Of My Feelings will be the first new project to ever be released on reissue label Needle Mythology.

The album was written and recorded by Davies and Butler over a period of just 15 days, although four years passed between the time of the album's conception and completion. Davies says of the first session, "We were booked in for five days or something, and by the end of the final day, we knew that if the brief was to write hit singles, we’d sort of wandered off in a different direction." In the four years it took to start and finish In Memory Of My Feelings, Davies emerged as The Anchoress, and released her debut LP Confessions Of A Romance Novelist.

The vinyl edition of In Memory Of My Feelings will also include a 7" single with a rearranged version of "The Patron Saint Of The Lost Cause", and a cover of Madonna's "Live To Tell". Butler says, "When I was 16, "Live To Tell" allowed me to join the dots in songwriting between True Blue and The Queen Is Dead." Davies continues, "I don’t know what Madonna wrote it about, but the resonances in a post-#metoo world are impossible to miss."

"Ten Good Reasons" is out now. Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler's In Memory Of My Feelings album arrives via Needle Mythology on 16 October, and is available to pre-order now.
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