Anna Calvi has unleashed a second - and the opening - track from her upcoming guest-star laden EP, Is This All There Is?, landing in March.
For God's Lonely Man, Anna chooses none other than Iggy Pop and they create a compelling, electric partnership, accompanied by a hefty bass and drum driven beast. You'd be forgiven for thinkking that it's Iggy who sings the lyrical snippet used for today's title but it fact it's Anna.
Familiar though the tune may be - it immediately reminded me of Ladyhawke & Broods' 2021 collaboration Guilty Love - it's a strident tune all by itself. As with yesterday, the video is in monochrome - an accidental theme for this week?
It's beautiful in it's simplicity as Anna switches between rolling and throwing herself over and away from Iggy and an electric guitar. Iggy remains shirtless (naturally) and still, the light and shade playing over his wrinkled flesh telling its own story within a story.
Great stuff and I'm looking forward to the rest of the EP, featuring Laurie Anderson and Matt Berninger from The National. For now, to add a splash of colour, here's track two released first, I See A Darkness featuring Perfume Genius.
Another compelling video-cum-short-film, which cleverly plays a few seconds of God's Lonely Man, pumping from a pub/club as a woman waits outside.
Is This All There Is? is avaialble for pre-order now from Bandcamp.
I couldn't stretch to £19.99 for vinyl or £12.99 for CD (both plus postage) for a 4-track EP but I had planned to shell out £3.99 for the digital format. Unfortunately, my connection crashed at the moment of checkout and, after a couple of failed attempts to complete the transaction in the closing minutes of Bandcamp Friday, I then ran out of time. I'm going to wait patiently until the next one on 6th March and try again.
