Anna Calvi to Tour U.S. for the First Time Since 2013, Score New Season of Peaky Blinders

Some news on the Anna Calvi front: The musician is bringing her tour to the U.S. for the first time in six years in support of her acclaimed 2018 album Hunter. Additionally, the “Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy” artist has written and performed the score for the fifth season of BBC One’s period drama Peaky Blinders, marking her first television score.

Calvi describes what drew her to the gangster epic in the first place:

This is a new thing for me but it was a really good fit, I love everything about the show. I completely immersed myself in it and became quite obsessed with the characters, especially Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and getting lost in his mind. There is a duality to the show, a beauty and a brutality, which I have been exploring in my own music and on the Hunter album. I want to say thank you to the director Anthony Byrne for believing in me and letting me seek out what I needed to.

Hunter is on the shortlist for the 2019 Mercury Prize, Calvi’s third nomination for the title of best album released in the U.K. by a British or Irish act.