Anna Calvi will be releasing her third studio album called Hunter on August 31 via Domino. The album will be her first in five years and the follow up to 2013s award winning album One Breath. The Twickenham singer songwriter has been called a guitar virtuoso while having a university level degree in violin and a beautifully ranged operatic voice.
Calvi has also shared a video for the albums lead single “Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy.” The video was directed by Kendrick Lamar collaborator William Kennedy and choreographed by Aaron Sillis who is known for working with FKA Twigs.
The video is a slightly haunting effort that features Calvi’s signature beauty while exploring gender and sexual identities in openly interpretive formats. The imagery is magically shot with quick clips that are not too sudden and choreography that feels uneasy but leaves you wanting more.
As for the album Calvi said, “I’m hunting for something – I want experiences, I want agency, I want sexual freedom, I want intimacy, I want to feel strong, I want to feel protected and I want to find something beautiful in all the mess.
I want to go beyond gender. I don’t want to have to chose between the male and female in me. I’m fighting against feeling an outsider and trying to find a place that feels like home.
I believe that gender is a spectrum. I believe that if we were allowed to be somewhere in the middle, not pushed to the extremes of performed masculinity and femininity, we would all be more free. I want to explore how to be something other than just what I’ve been assigned to be. I want to explore a more subversive sexuality, which goes further than what is expected of a woman in our patriarchal heteronormative society. I want to repeat the words “girl boy, woman man”, over and over, to find the limits of these words, against vastness of human experience.
I believe in the female protagonist, who isn’t simply responding to a man’s story. I go out into the world and see it as mine – I want something from it, rather than just being a passive product of it. I’m hungry for experiences. Sometimes things seem clear, and other times I feel lost. I feel strong and yet vulnerable; I wear my body and my art as an armour, but I also know that to be true to myself is to be open to being hurt.
The intent of this record is to be primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, to be the hunter and the hunted.”
Hunter track listing
1. Come Together
2. Roll (Burbank Funk)
3. Come Over
4. La Di Da
5. Stay the Night
6. Bravo
7. Mood
8. Next Time/ Humble Pie
9. It Gets Better (With Time)
10. Look What U Started
11. Wanna Be
12. Beat Goes On
13. Hold On
Calvi will also be hitting the road in support of the album. Below are the tour dates.
06/12 Berlin, Germany – Berghain
07/15 Paris, France – La Gaite Lyrique
06/19 London, UK – Heaven
09/27 Belfast, Northern Ireland – The Belfast Empire
09/28 Dublin, Ireland – The Tivoli Theatre
09/30 Glasgow, Scotland – St. Luke’s
10/01 Manchester, England – O2 Ritz
10/03 Newcastle, UK – The Boiler Shop
10/04 Birmingham, UK – All Saints Church
10/06 Bristol, UK – SWX Bristol
10/08 Lille, France – Le Splendid
10/09 La Rochelle, France – Stereolux
10/10 Nantes, France – La Rambleta
10/14 Barcelona, Spain – Cruilla de Tardor
10/16 Madrid, Spain – Chango
10/17 Santiago, Spain – Sala Capitol
10/19 Porto, Portugal – Hard Club
10/20 Lisbon, Portugal – Capitolio
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