Back in 2017, Welsh artist and producer Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) blew her teenage self's mind when she went into the studio with musical heroes Manic Street Preachers, ultimately appearing on two tracks from their 2018 album Resistance is Futile – most notably "Dylan & Caitlin," a duet with James Dean Bradfield about the stormy marriage between literary couple Dylan and Caitlin Thomas.

A second duet, "The Exchange," followed in 2021, and now they're back together for "Throw Over Your Man," the third track to arrive from the new Anchoress album As We Once Were, out August 7 via Last Night in Glasgow.

Watch the JJ Eringa-directed video below:

A sapphic rock track inspired by the love letters between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, which life-long Woolf reader Davies describes as "signposts from the past for an imagined future for myself,” adding that the letter were a "profound awakening" for her as "a queer teenager still figuring out how to be in the world." The track also features a choir of queer friends including British artists Bishi and Rookes.

On James Dean Bradfield’s involvement, she adds:

“The Manics first taught me how to incorporate the literary world into rock n roll, so I knew that James would instinctively “get” what I was trying to do here. It’s never not a huge privilege to listen back to his incredible talent and I spent many happy hours editing the takes and wondering what my 12 year old self as a huge Manics fan would think to see what “just another day in the studio” looked like for the adult me."

Not so fun fact: While filming the video to "Throw Over Your Man," Davies fell and broke her arm badly, ending up in surgery to have a metal plate inserted in her wrist, later completing the video while still in a plaster cast using clever camera angles to hide it.

The previously announced album launch show at London's 100 Club will still go ahead on August 22.