Catherine A.D. is the musical moniker of Welsh multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Catherine Anne Davies. Her output to date consists of the three DIY EPs she’s been drip-dropping out into the world whilst finishing university, with a full length album due in 2013. Inside of her music swirls simmerings of murderous gloom and honeyed drops of sensual darkness – the nocturnal wrench of ‘Long Day’; the cold-twinkling whirl of 'Carry Your Heart'. The EPs are bound in ribbons: blood-red, purple-black, black. This, though, is the year she goes Technicolor: Catherine has been recording stirring pop hooks, snarls of guitar, glimmers of keyboard and serrated vocal somersaults into her cauldron of midnight piano and treacly growling. She’s even taken to covering a Friendly Fires song. Don’t worry: you didn’t miss Catherine AD before she went soft. You missed her before she became complete.
