Anna CalviAnna Calvi

It’s rightly impossible to get through any bit of press about Anna Calvi without mentioning that Brian Eno recommended her to Nick Cave over dinner, so I’ll get it out of the way first. I wouldn’t necessarily have pegged Eno for a fan, but for Cave it makes sense; Calvi makes classicist, classy soundtrack pop, in thrall to the American southwest, vaguely nostalgic of no era in particular without losing any contemporaneity. Her dynamic voice—reminiscent, at turns, of Allison Goldfrap...

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