Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi – review

(Domino)Picture a candlelit bedroom at midnight. Picture a raven-haired seductress, body sheathed in a silky negligee, eyes locked with yours as she lingeringly peels off a stocking … Such is the carnal atmosphere of Anna Calvi's debut album. Her music seethes with so much sexual tension you fear it might combust – and when it does, as on the galloping, feverish Desire and the spiralling Blackout, the effect is glorious. Elsewhere, Calvi draws so heavily on the language of cinema and the cl...

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