Despite it featuring a track titled P.S. Fuck You, there’s something that feels rather staid about this debut from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Catherine Ann Davies. Belonging vaguely to the tradition of jaunty, mildly eccentric sophistipop, the Anchoress sits in a nice but not particularly exciting place between the parental indie of the Beautiful South, goth-rock as filtered through the fingers of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the antic posturing of Marina and the Diamonds. The latter comes to mind foremost on lead single Popular: a song about being the opposite, it’s a sentiment that unfortunately serves only to compound the deep sense of uncoolness that pervades these tracks. By the same token, there is nothing here that is particularly freakish – instead the triteness of Davies’s lyrics, combined with the high drama of her delivery, smacks of inflated self-importance. Pleasant pop that thinks it’s profound.