Anna Calvi has detailed Hunter, her third full-length album, which will be released on August 31st via Domino.
Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Grinderman) at Konk Studios in London with some further production in LA, the album was recorded with Anna’s band – Mally Harpaz on various instruments and Alex Thomas on drums – with the addition of Adrian Utley from Portishead on keys and Martyn Casey from The Bad Seeds on bass.
Along with today’s announcement, Calvi shares a video for the album’s first single, “Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy”. Speaking about the track, Anna said the following: “It’s a song about the defiance of happiness. It’s about being free to identify yourself in whichever way you please, without any restraints from society.”
Directed by rising star and recent Kendrick Lamar collaborator, William Kennedy, and choreographed by Aaron Sillis (FKA Twigs), the video is available to watch below.
Anna Calvi said the following about Hunter:
“I’m hunting for something – I want experiences, I want agency, I want sexual freedom, I want intimacy, I want to feel strong, I want to feel protected and I want to find something beautiful in all the mess.
I want to go beyond gender. I don’t want to have to chose between the male and female in me. I’m fighting against feeling an outsider and trying to find a place that feels like home.
I believe that gender is a spectrum. I believe that if we were allowed to be somewhere in the middle, not pushed to the extremes of performed masculinity and femininity, we would all be more free. I want to explore how to be something other than just what I’ve been assigned to be. I want to explore a more subversive sexuality, which goes further than what is expected of a woman in our patriarchal heteronormative society. I want to repeat the words “girl boy, woman man”, over and over, to find the limits of these words, against vastness of human experience.
I believe in the female protagonist, who isn’t simply responding to a man’s story. I go out into the world and see it as mine – I want something from it, rather than just being a passive product of it. I’m hungry for experiences. Sometimes things seem clear, and other times I feel lost. I feel strong and yet vulnerable; I wear my body and my art as an armour, but I also know that to be true to myself is to be open to being hurt.
The intent of this record is to be primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, to be the hunter and the hunted.”
Tour Dates:
Tue 12 June 2018 Berlin, Germany, Berghain [SOLD OUT]
Fri 15 June 2018 Paris, France, La Gaité Lyrique [SOLD OUT]
Tue 19 June 2018 London, UK, Heaven [SOLD OUT]
Thu 27 Sep 2018 Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Empire
Fri 28 Sep 2018 Dublin 8, Ireland, The Tivoli Theatre
Sun 30 Sep 2018 Glasgow, Scotland, St Luke’s
Mon 01 Oct 2018 Manchester, England, O2 Ritz
Wed 03 Oct 2018 Newcastle, UK, The Boiler Shop
Thu 04 Oct 2018 Birmingham, UK, Town Hall
Fri 05 Oct 2018 Brighton, UK, All Saints Church
Sat 06 Oct 2018 Bristol, UK, SWX Bristol
Mon 08 Oct 2018 Lille, France, Le Splendid
Tue 09 Oct 2018 La Rochelle, France, La Sirene
Wed 10 Oct 2018 Nantes, France, Stereolux
Sat 13 Oct 2018 Valencia, Spain, La Rambleta
Sun 14 Oct 2018 Barcelona, Spain, Cruïlla de Tardor @ Razzmatazz 2
Tue 16 Oct 2018 Madrid, Spain, Chango
Wed 17 Oct 2018 Santiago, Spain, Sala Capitol
Fri 19 Oct 2018 Porto, Portugal, Hard Club
Sat 20 Oct 2018 Lisbon, Portugal, Capitolio
Mon 22 Oct 2018 Lyon, France, Le Radiant
Tue 23 Oct 2018 Strasbourg, France, La Laiterie
Wed 24 Oct 2018 Utrecht, Netherlands Tivoli Vredenburg, De Helling
Thu 25 Oct 2018 Brussels, Belgium, Botanique
Sat 27 Oct 2018 Odense, Denmark, Posten
Mon 29 Oct 2018 Oslo, Norway Parkteatret
Tue 30 Oct 2018 Stockholm, Sweden, Nalen
Thu 01 Nov 2018 Helsinki, Finland, Tavastia Club
Sat 03 Nov 2018 Lund, Sweden, Mejeriet
Sun 04 Nov 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark, Vega
Mon 05 Nov 2018 Aarhus, Denmark, Voxhall
Wed 07 Nov 2018 Warsaw, Poland, Niebo
Thu 08 Nov 2018 Prague, Czech Republic, Lucerna
Fri 09 Nov 2018 Leipzig, Germany, Conne Island
Sat 10 Nov 2018 Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany, Rolling Stone Weekender
Mon 12 Nov 2018 Bratislava, Slovakia, Nova Cvernovka
Tue 13 Nov 2018 Budapest, Hungary, A38 Ship
Thu 15 Nov 2018 Vienna, Austria, Simm City
Fri 16 Nov 2018 Rust, Germany, Rolling Stone Park
Sat 17 Nov 2018 Fribourg, Switzerland, Le Nouveau Monde
Sun 18 Nov 2018 Zurich, Switzerland, Plaza Club Zurich
Tue 20 Nov 2018 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Kino Siska
Wed 16 Jan 2019 Munich, Germany, Freiheiz
Fri 18 Jan 2019 Berlin, Germany, Astra KulturhausSat 19 Jan 2019 Hamburg, Germany, Kampnagel
Tue 22 Jan 2019 Cologne, Germany, Gloria Theatre
Wed 23 Jan 2019 Amsterdam, Netherlands, Melkweg
Fri 25 Jan 2019 Nancy, France, L’Autre Canal
Sat 26 Jan 2019 Nimes, France, Paloma
Sun 27 Jan 2019 Toulouse, France, Le Bikini
Tue 29 Jan 2019 Bordeaux, France, Le Rocher de Palmer
Thu 31 Jan 2019 Reims, France, La Cartonnerie
Thu 07 Feb 2019 London, UK, The Roundhouse
Hunter Tracklist:
1. As A Man
2. Hunter
3. Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy
4. Indies Or Paradise
5. Swimming Pool
6. Alpha
7. Chain
8. Wish
9. Away
10. Eden