{"id":8528,"date":"2014-02-11T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2014-02-11T16:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:58:01","slug":"anna-calvi-one-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/02\/11\/anna-calvi-one-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Calvi &#8211; One Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/02\/11\/anna-calvi-one-breath\/annacalvi_onebreath\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8529\" alt=\"annacalvi_onebreath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/annacalvi_onebreath.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>One Breath<\/em> is Anna Calvi\u2019s follow up to 2011\u2019s self-titled debut.<!--more--> 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\u2019s \u201cGonna Get Close To You.\u201d 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 \u201coooos.\u201d Every song is a self-contained experience, like a film soundtrack condensed to four minutes. The real brilliance of Calvi\u2019s music is how it is also relatively accessible to music fans who aren\u2019t looking for a challenge. \u00a0Deep, dark and beautiful. (Domino Records,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/annacalvi.com\/\">annacalvi.com<\/a>) <strong>Broose Tulloch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Breath is Anna Calvi\u2019s follow up to 2011\u2019s self-titled debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}