Like a boy in a music shop let loose with all the toys, another indulgently joyous and musically impressive psych-prog journey full of sonic humour and riffing adventure and possibly the best LP yet by the popular British comic actor. Matty Berry may be best known for playing loud characters such as Toast of London, or in Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, The Mighty Boosh, What We Do In The Shadows and more, but his parallel career releasing albums is just as entertaining. What must noted is sheer energy and skill playing a huge variety of instruments – guitars, bass, various keyboards and synthesizers (piano, Wurlitzer, mellotron, Moog, Hammond, Vox and Farfisa organs), everything apart from drums, on which he is joined by Craig Blundell. What this album does is again capture a late 60s / early 70s period where almost anything goes, where riff joins riff in a chain of wondrous exploration, from the otherworldly opener, Abroad, all the way to the funky acid-trip coda and old-school reprise Now Disappear (Again). The original is one of the standouts of the album, as is the title track, a 60s-style romp that sounds like its straight from a TV theme or a lost Barbarella movie, as well as the far-out escape of Summer Sun which moves into Deep Purple organ territory before whooshing into space and back, the heavy-psych instrumental Invisible, the three-part Blues Inside Me which encompasses a psych journey through a late 60s and early glam filter mixed with the propulsive Like Stone. Tongue in cheek or otherwise, it’s a lot fun. Yeah man, you should really dig it. Out on Acid Jazz Records.
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