The Art Of Losing
by The Anchoress
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The best album by Catherine Anne Davies is The Art Of Losing which is ranked number 17658 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 63.
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The Art Of Losing track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 69 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Art Of Losing rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 51 Music Albums of 2021 | 40/51 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 16 Music Albums of 2021 | 6/16 | 3 |
| 2026 | Robert Anton Wilson | Top 83 Music Albums of the 2020s | 14/83 | 17 |
| 2025 |  eclab | Top 30 Music Albums of 2021 | 24/30 | 1 |
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 67/100 | 7 |
| 2024 | AledJames | Top 68 Music Albums of 2021 | 21/68 | 4 |
| 2023 | Robert Anton Wilson | Music Women | 23/93 | - |
| 2022 |  Mercury | part 1 of You must listen to the album below you:canon edition | 75/100 | - |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | more 2021 best-albums (201-300) | 61/99 | - |
| 2021 | musicOMH | musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2021 | 29/50 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 24 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 63 | |||
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The Art Of Losing ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/27/2026 16:13 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
| ! | 04/25/2026 21:35 | Robert Anton Wil | 1,149 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2026 11:53 | cicadelic | 13,957 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.8/100, a mean average of 65.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Mercury 04/07/2021 20:06 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionThe Art Of Losing comments
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Mercury 04/07/2021 19:54 | #268295
(While having its moments of intense, intimate beauty, this album also did leave me unmoved for long stretches. Although the piano-heavy art pop and art rock and chamber pop here is quite heady and admirably composed, it never rose above quite nice in my opinion.)
After a few listens I feel like I just don't vibe with this album as much as I would expect myself to based off the individual parts. The one glaring thing that honestly just grated on me a bit was her voice - it has a certain theatrical, somewhat gothic, melodramatic showyness to it that I am generally not a fan of in almost any artist. That same sort of moody, self-serious, affect of gloom and tension. I don't like it in Nick Drake's music, PJ Harvey's, Fiona Apple's, anyone. I think that element is the one MAJOR drawback to this sound.
Outside of the vocals, the arrangements are heady, detailed and quite pretty. The lyrics are good, the strings sound good, the piano and the drums when they come in and turn the Art Pop into Art Rock for short burtsts they are also good and they pop. In many ways this is a pretty good and well written album. Yet, the vocals and the general flow of the album made me lose interest for long stretches.
Not much else to say. Musically this is good and even sometimes the vocals are alright. But a big enough portion of the album features her more quirky quasi-cabaret vocal delivery that I tend to not really vibe with this music or album.
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