Anna Calvi review – rock star melodrama meets MOR

Heaven, LondonThe idiosyncratic singer-songwriter is best when she revels in all her gothic majestyAnna Calvi belongs to a category of uncategorisable singer-songwriters. This label could also be applied to St Vincent, Julia Holter, Bat for Lashes, Feist and Jenny Hval – musicians who march to the beats of their own drums, neither adhering particularly closely to rock and indie traditions, nor truly qualifying as pop (their music isn’t as dumbly infectious or popular enough for tha...

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