Michael Hann

The joys of musical comfort food

Bring me verses, choruses, melodies and vocal harmonies! Katy J. Pearson and Hemi Hemingway reviewed

Katy J. Pearson's folksy Fleetwood Macishness is like aural hot chocolate. Image: Thomas Jackson / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 26 June 2021

I’ve given up comfort food. I’m trying to shift lockdown pounds that have left me with the physique of the kind of ageing second-string wrestler you used to see on World of Sport early on a Saturday afternoon in the 1980s. It’s all eschewing oils and measuring portions round these parts, and so I have been seeking my comforts in music.

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