Having played a series of support tours with distinguished luminaries like Nick Cave’s Grinderman, and making the list for BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll; South London rising star, Anna Calvi has just embarked on a massive headline tour. Over four months she’ll tour the UK, France, Germany, Italy and basically every city on your euro-trip wish-list!
Although we have to use our best patience skills and wait until March 4 for her debut album here in Australia, her self-titled record dropped in the UK and Europe on January 17. She’s already celebrated by press overseas; NME said her debut “is perhaps the first great record of 2011.”
Recorded in secret, in a basement studio, Calvi says “it’s a culmination of my whole life up until now.” Some tracks are intertwined with freaky Hitchcock sounding strings, others explore lust and loneliness; but every track is doused in Calvi’s powerful noir-pop grace. Plus she plays guitar and was dubbed “the biggest thing since Patti Smit” by industry magnate Brian Eno.
We think the indie kids will drool all over their beards for this one, and so will lovers of accessible pop. How do we know this? Well the record is climbing the iTunes album charts super fast and it’s already #1 in France. To help you jump on the bandwagon, check out some footage below of her performing the album’s closer, Love Won’t Be Leaving, here.
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