One Breath is Anna Calvi’s follow up to 2011’s self-titled debut. Almost completely unknown in North America, the English singer/guitarist/composer has already been nominated for several British and European music awards, winning the European Border Breakers in 2012. Calvi combines the most dramatic elements of Twin Peaks, Nine Inch Nails, and opera in a way that brings to mind Shirley Manson meets Nick Cave or Siouxsie Sioux fronts The Velvet Underground, or perhaps Dalbello’s “Gonna Get Close To You.” One Breath is a delicious challenge, bordering on art-rock; Calvi mixes music and noise creating jagged edges that give the words more bite. Textures contrast and grate against one another; smooth dances with abrasive; she coos, the cello arrives like blunt force trauma, she snarls, the violas sweep, she “oooos.” Every song is a self-contained experience, like a film soundtrack condensed to four minutes. The real brilliance of Calvi’s music is how it is also relatively accessible to music fans who aren’t looking for a challenge. Deep, dark and beautiful. (Domino Records, annacalvi.com) Broose Tulloch