MATT BERRY

DARYL EASLEA

Heard Noises ACID JAZZ Some of the best noises to hear this new year. At some point, Matt Berry will be fully appreciated for the innovative musical maverick he truly is. Heard Noises – unbelievably, his 13th album – is yet another example of his fathomless imagination and instrumental prowess. His records are communal spaces for the strange: every diversion is explored, no byway left untrod; ideas and genres ebb and flow, snapping into focus, occasionally careering out of control. Whereas 2020’s Phantom Birds was a Dylanesque break-up album and 2021’s The Blue Elephant was more rooted in 60s freakbeat, Heard Noises jauntily moves across styles and influences while remaining unmistakably Berry’s singular, oblique vision. “One of the greatest instalments of his idiosyncratic career.” The scene is set by Who-like…

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