HANN * Saddle - Billed Stork
Once upon a time there was Pop that filled afternoons with excited radios and listeners watching the time slip by towards dinnertime, with intimate satisfaction.
Listening to the latest song by Hannah, aka HANN, takes us back to that time, with the seventies dancing happily like children. Maybe it's because of the funky guitar, or because of a keyboard gently resting on the keys, or because of the Mancunian songwriter's sweet-toned teenage voice, but the feeling that one can really refrain from leaden thoughts becomes an absolute truth, as well as a pleasant one. Delicate, sunny, joyful, at least in its music, the single seems to be a revisitation of what the city, which was a beacon in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, had forgotten to be.
Huge hype would need to be built up for this girl so intensely capable of using politeness and lustre in her singing.
Listen to these two hundred and eight seconds and a sudden beach pervaded with peace will place itself in the busy centre of listeners effectively whisked away to melody…
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
16th June 2023
https://hann.bandcamp.com/album/saddle-billed-stork