
If your streaming service thinks you might like a track with a funny name, by a band you have never heard of, you have to listen to it, don’t you? And if it turns out to tickle the senses, it has to qualify for inclusion on the shortlist for your blog. So, for no better reason, here’s Tummy from the debut album by the London band, For Breakfast.
For Breakfast is a 7-piece outfit fronted by Maya Harrison (keys, vocals). They have a wind section courtesy of Gail Tasker (flute) and Eden Harrison (alto sax). The obligatory guitars are supplied by Joe Thompson and Omar Zaghouani. Sam Birkett plays bass and Eddie Jones-West wields the drum sticks. That gives them plenty of scope for a variety of styles, and they make full use of it. But they don’t stop there. Guest musicians on the album add tasty morsels of violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet and trombone.
For Breakfast serve us an appetising plate of modern popular music that borrows from every flavour of the art: pop, rock, classical, folk, jazz … you name it, it’s probably there. Like Elbow, although they draw on a wide range of influences, they don’t sound like anyone else. They will hook you with Maya’s impassioned voice, their sound will hold you in a warm embrace, and their songs will satisfy a hungry soul like hunny in Pooh bear’s tummy.
I wish I was a little grub
With whiskers round my tummy.
I’d climb into a honey-pot
And make my tummy gummy.
