Anna Calvi has done well out of having her music incorporated in the Peaky Blinders soundtrack. Her assured passionate vocals and depth of guitar prowess, becoming a neat fit with the programmes stylised visual aesthetic. Its brought her finally to the notice of a much wider audience, one that she's deserved for quite some time. This track Ain't No Grave is her latest creation specifically for the current final series. But full length films are said to be in the pipeline, so who knows?
For a while she's also been selectively mining the sonic quirks of mid-Seventies New York darlings, the original dark synth duo Suicide. The heavily echo reverberated yelp cropping up all over her recent work. Having done a truly superb reinterpretation of their seminal track Ghost Rider, you can imagine the Peaky Blinder music commissioner asking her could we have something of yours, but like that? And here it is. It borrows a very similar 'train on the tracks' keyboard rhythm.
There are also thematic antecedents in the song Wish from her last album Hunted - of doing one more thing before you die. Someone will be no more by the end of this song. For Ain't No Grave has a death defying walk, a striding menace lives within every step of it. Until this defiant strut reaches its denouement in a conclusion that has the murderously slashing and wailing chainsaw lead guitar that Calvi has become so adept at, executed with practiced fluency and steely edge. Great stuff.
CARROT REVIEW - 6/8
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