ANNA CALVI - Is This All There Is?

Absent with a new album since 2018 ("Hunter"), over these past eight years Anna Calvi has actually been very much present on the music scene. The Eps "Hunted" in 2020 and "Tommy" in 2022, along with the release of the music she composed for the celebrated TV series "Peaky Blinders" in 2024, have kept her steadily in the spotlight. For a while she stayed away from the stage, partly to devote herself to her son, born in November 2021 within her relationship with her partner Adelaide. Asked how having a child might affect her creativity, she replied that she had never felt so inspired. Hence a new project has now been launched, comprising three Eps, of which "Is This All There Is?" is the first instalment, featuring four songs, four duets: two originals and two covers.

It opens with the energetic "God's Lonely Man", with Anna Calvi and Iggy Pop chasing each other across two very different vocal registers. A completely different scenario unfolds in the nocturnal "I See A Darkness" (a cover of Bonnie "Prince" Billy), a delight that Calvi chooses to share with the fragile falsetto of Perfume Genius. Laurie Anderson co-stars in the transfiguration of Kraftwerk's "Computer Love", while Matt Berninger lends distinction to "Is This All There Is?", the title track, which at times evokes David Bowie's "Heroes" quite unmistakably. These are songs dense with sensual tension, torn open by Calvi's guitar, moving between controlled distortion and dynamic contrasts. Another noir-rock piece of the puzzle in understanding the compositional maturity now attained by the English musician, who has also recently appeared on the charity compilation "Help(2)" with another collaborative track, "Sunday Light", alongside Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya and Dove Ellis.

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29/03/2026