Imagine this. A broody Nick Cave ballad written for a Bond film, Shirley Bassey in all her glory behind the microphone and PJ Harvey wrestling Jimi Hendrix for the electric guitar. Yes, that is more or less what Anna Calvi’s debut album sounds like.

On her MySpace page she labels her genre as ‘tango’.

On stage, the 28-year old blonde blue eyed pretty English girl, has a fiercely stoic presence. In interviews she is beguiling and sweet.

Journalists speculate that the darkness in her music comes from having spent the first three years of her life in hospital.

I think she is a vampire and I am in love.

Details

Album – Anna Calvi by Anna Calvi

Released – Jan 11, 2011

Record company – Domino Recording Co