Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (LP)

Anna Calvi is the debut album of British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi, released on 14 January 2011, by Domino Records. In Autumn, 2010, Calvi entered Black Box studio in France with producer Rob Ellis and, using vintage analogue equipment, created "a velvet Wall of Sound that justified the hype in the buildup to its 2011 release".

The album peaked at No. 40 in the UK Album Charts reached No. 17 in France and entered several European charts. The album has been nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. Blackout with the cover of Surrender (classic Neapolitan song, originally Torna a Surriento, adapted for Elvis Presley in 1961 by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, with lyrics by Claude Aveling) was released as the first single from the album on 21 March 2011 and was debuted on Pitchfork in the US.

Desire was the second single (backed with a reworking of Leonard Cohen's Joan of Arc) and was released on 20 June 2011. The track was available on 7" (RUG412) and via digital download (RUG412D). Suzanne & I (backed with the cover of The Shirelles Baby It's You) was released as the third single from the album on 12 September 2011.

Upon its release, Anna Calvi received generally positive reviews from music critics. Aggregating website AnyDecentMusic? reports a score of 7.6 based on 29 professional reviews. Matt James of PopMatters described Calvi as "eternally glamorous, but perennially doomed nightclub torch-song singer with a skeleton army in their closet". NME called the debut "perhaps the first great record of 2011".