Is This All There Is?

Following her work scoring the final two seasons of Peaky Blinders and composing an opera with visionary director Robert Wilson, Anna Calvi returns with an EP that plays like a cinematic soundscape — a four-song film arc populated by vivid characters.

Her collaborators on this EP — Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, Matt Berninger — all share a singularity of vision. “They share a kind of subversive honesty,” Calvi notes. “They’re not trying to please anyone. They express exactly who they are.” On this EP their voices become characters in the story, actors in the world she’s creating.