18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.
The album captures the band on their most recent North American tour where they took in 31 cities on a coast-to-coast excursion. The career spanning set it features songs from the band’s Empires and Dance album through to last year’s Walk Between Worlds. In total, 40 tracks are presented on 4CD deluxe edition (in hardcover book).