Her impressive soaring vocals, her feverish torch songs, her impish English flower allure, her impeccable credentials (Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Edith Piaf and more), her virtuosic guitar playing, her crimson red smile: there are tens, even hundreds of reasons why we have missed Anna Calvi so terribly.
In late December, like an early Christmas present, this English singer started laying clues on Twitter in preparation for her third album: ‘I’m very close… See you in 2018’. It has been five years since her last album release, One Breath, a true lesson in daring and panache which produced the breathtaking concerts that this wild child has always been so good at. The date is set for a volcanic eruption.