We have been remiss...

We didn't mean to forget to post this, but we did. Here is Anna Calvi singing her single "Jezebel", an old Frankie Laine/Edith Piaf cover. It's not on the album, cuz the album is all [stunning] original work. But it's still mighty fine.

Y'know. Every year several new female artists are hailed as the second coming, and we buy into it, usually deciding by the end of the year that actually, they're dodgy, shoddy and boring. But we have a feeling Anna Calvi is different. This is a woman with serious chops (songwriting, guitar playing, singing) whose melodramatic and sumptuous femme fatale of a debut album is one of the best first works we've heard in a long time. Anna seems to hark back to the 90s when a slew of prodigiously talented female singer/composers made their name with fresh and totally unique music.

We love her, we think she's ace. We hope you enjoy the heady, sexy tango that is "Jezebel", too.