Anna Calvi’s music is at times ear-splitting, on occasions unworldly, but always fine, beguiling and grandiose. She’s bloody cool too. But no one ever seems to notice these simple, unmitigated traits. Indeed, whenever the Italo-Anglo singer’s name crops up, what immediately springs to mind is the fact that she’s female, she’s hotly tipped (BBC Sound of 2011 – megawow!) and she’s signed to Domino (who apparently never ever ever ever sign female singers). In relation to the substance on this, her debut album, these lumpen minutiae are absolutely extraneous.....
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