Anna Calvi has announced a new EP featuring collaborations with Matt Berninger, Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop and Perfume Genius.
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Enitled ‘Is This All There Is?’, the four track record is set to land on March 20 and can be pre-ordered here.
As a taster, she has shared the visceral track ‘God’s Lonely Man’ featuring Iggy Pop, which you can listen to below.
The song sees the pair trading lyrics over an industrial beat and raw guitars. “I wanna be somebody tonight / I wanna be somebody cos I’m God’s lonely man,” the pair sing.
Calvi said of the collab with Pop: “He’s disruptive, raw, and honest – a singular force. His presence was so perfect for the narrative of this song”.
‘Is This All There Is?’ is the first instalment in a trilogy of records which “explore identity as a metamorphosis, shaped and reshaped through the experience of falling in love” inspired by Calvi’s own “perspective shift after becoming a parent”.
“Having a child was so transformative it made me consider the possibility that everything in life could potentially shift, and that is scary but incredibly freeing,” said Calvi. “I didn’t want to take anything for granted any more. I want to exist in the best way for my child. I wanted to ask the most basic human question – is this all there is?”
Elsewhere on the EP, Calvi reimagines Kraftwerk’s classic hit ‘Computer Love’ with Laurie Anderson, her previous cover of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘I See A Darkness’, featuring Perfume Genius which dropped last year and The National‘s Matt Berninger on the title track.
“The opportunity to be in the same space as people you love is so inspiring,” Calvi said. “To see how different people approach the same thing – it sharpens you. It’s thrilling.”
She added: “They share a kind of subversive honesty. They’re not trying to please anyone. They express exactly who they are.”
Elsewhere, Calvi is set to feature on the forthcoming ‘Help(2)’ album on March 6 alongside Arctic Monkeys, Beck, Portishead‘s Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Wolf Alice‘s Ellie Rowsell and more.
Produced and stewarded by James Ford, (Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Florence + The Machine, Blur, Pet Shop Boys), ‘HELP(2)’ was recorded through “a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios” mostly during one week in November 2025.
So far, the album has been previewed by one track – ‘Opening Night’ by Arctic Monkeys, which also marks their first new song in four years.
Previously Calvi brought her signature sound to the score of the fifth and sixth seasons of Peaky Blinders – whose final episode aired in 2022.
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