Second single from the new album by The Anchoress featuring James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers premiered on Steve Lamacq’s 6 Music show last night. Track now available on streaming and music video on streaming
New Bullion in September
Vanishing Twin - Archives (2 October)
The title speaks to the band’s recording process as opposed to this being archival material.
“‘Unity Over Europe’ is conceived as a two-act play with three main characters: Diana, Unity and Nancy, the Mitford Sisters,” says McKeown. “Act One finds them trapped in a flat two-dimensional Francis Bacon triptych spinning in space-time much like the excellent villains in Superman 2. In the second act Unity is placed in the nose cone of the V2 rocket and fired from Peenemünde into London, a punishment in homage to the final death parabola of Pynchon’s Rainbow.”
That old canard.