““Primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, this is my record, ‘Hunter’,” said Anna Calvi in a statement when she first announced her third studio album. It was written before the dawn of #MeToo, at the end of an eight-year relationship and when she was tired of the constant portrayal of women as passive victims in the media. “If I was a man in all but my body / Oh, would I now understand you c”
“Hunter is Anna Calvi's most complex, defiant work yet”
“On her first album in five years, the goth-rock guitar virtuoso abandons her typically detached perspective to ruminate on gender, sexuality, and identity with newfound urgency.”
“Anna Calvi garnered instant acclaim straight out of the box. Her self-titled debut earned her several prestigious awards, among them, a nomination for the Mercury Prize and the special distinction of being named British Breakthrough Act at the 2012 Brit Awards. Follow-up One Breath secured a second Mercury Prize nomination, no small accomplishment for an artist who once claimed she was too nervous”
“An exercise in uncensored honesty, ‘Hunter’, the third album from art-rock musician Anna Calvi, is a galvanising record that, at its heart, embodies the freedom of true release. Written during a turning point in her life – the breakdown of an eight-year relationship and a move to Strasbourg with a new partner – it’s the tool through which the south Londoner was able to reimagine and question her o”
