Five years on from her hit album The Art of Losing, Welsh artist Catherine Anne Davies, who performs as The Anchoress, is back with new single "I Had a Baby Not a Lobotomy" ahead of the August 7 release of her fourth full-length LP As We Once Were via Last Night in Glasgow.

Recorded using an ARP 2500 belonging to Steve Townshend of The Who, the song and video takes a sharply comical look at the mountain of unsolicited, often brainless advice new mothers have to deal with after giving birth. The video, directed by JJ Eringa, features Davies as some of these unwanted thought intruders, including a mustached A&R man that she says was the most fun to dress up as. As fans quickly deduced, it loosely references the clip for "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis from 1992.

Watch it below:

Described as a concept record and her "most sonically adventurous" album yet, As We Once Were asks the questions "What can we build out of the past?" and "Are we destined to be held down by it, defined by it?" Inspired by finding a tape recording of her grandmother's voice, Davies told NME last week that the album became "a conversation across four generations of women – my grandmother, my mother, myself, my daughter."

As We Once Were is out August 7 via Last Night in Glasgow. Pre-order here. The tracklist has yet to be revealed but we do know that it runs to 14 songs across two vinyl. The fourth side of the vinyl will feature a leopard print etching, as a nod to Davies' favourite pattern. "Apparently this is the closest you can get to actual leopard print vinyl," she writes on Substack. "Yes I did ask."

To mark the album release, Davies will play a special show at London's 100 Club, the world's oldest independent music venue, on August 22.