Tag: elea calvet
Album Premiere: Spurious Forms – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Releasing every track on the album, Spurious Forms has been an interesting exercise in marketing. Writing about all ten tracks as they are drip-fed out for...
Single Premiere: Memento Mori – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The end is nigh! Literally, in the sense that this is the final single and final track to be released from Elea Calvet’s Spurious Forms and poetically,...
Single Premiere: Seasons – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There has always been a sonic contradiction at the heart of Elea Calvet’s music, an attraction built of opposites, an unusual juxtaposition of sounds, and...
Bad Joke – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The fact that Elea Calvet describes this song as perhaps the most heart-wrenchingly brutal song on the album speaks volumes. Why? Because this is an album woven from...
Single Premiere: If You Ever Wonder – Elea Calvet (reviewed by...
I’m not saying that Elea Calvet’s latest single is exactly an anti-Valentine’s Day song, but it does sit at the polar opposite end of the...
Single Premiere: Something Blue – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Reviewing every track from an album, as I have been with Elea Calvet’s Spurious Forms, is a challenging and interesting task. On the one hand, it enables...
Single Premiere: Filthy Lucre – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Most artists, the good ones at least, have a signature sound. Some, the better ones, have a style that is unique and exclusive to...
Single Premiere: Done Days and Souveniers – Elea Calvet (reviewed by...
Thanks to a constant drip feeding of the tracks that will constitute next year’s album, Spurious Forms, we are beginning to pick up a vivid...
Single Premiere: Letter From the Abattoir – Elea Calvet (reviewed by...
If I were to say that Elea Calvet reminds me of Tom Waits, would you get what I mean? Would the artist be offended? The answer to...
Single Premiere: Don’t Make Me Go – Elea Calvet (reviewed by...
Great as it has been to revisit Elea Calvet’s back catalog through her new interpretations and revisits, “Don’t Make Me Go” is where we look,...
Sinuous Ways (Reworked) – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something healthy in the idea that a song has no real final destination, no real definitive form. Obviously, those much-maligned tribute and...
Trigger – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you’ve ever heard the expression “vocals as an instrument” and never really known what that means, then one listen to “Trigger” will answer...
That Was The Music Week That Was – 040324
Another busy week with masses of music from all imaginable genres and geographies finding its way into the review pile. Some of it sounded...
Sinuous Ways – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Let me draw a line connecting the modern alternative music scene with the Chanson singers of the Parisian, 60’s beatnik cafes. Another connecting pre-war dancehall...
Sacrifice – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I first experienced Elea Calvet’s mercurial music in a small and intimate coffee shop setting more than a few years ago now. Since then...
Lust – Elea Calvet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Bristol based Canadian songwriter Elea Calvet delivers her gorgeous debut single, Lust, on 15th April and then rolls it out to the masses via a show at...
