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By the time
Matt Berry
released the 2025 album
Heard Noises
, he'd been making records for 30 years. That near lifetime of experience helps make it the most confident and expansive album of his career to date. He and a small band of cohorts -- most importantly drummer
Craig Blundell
-- conspire to delve deeply into psychedelia, coloring it with vocal choirs, swirling waves of effects, piercing guitar solos, and oscillating synths, while also swerving into folk-rock, retro-soul, and space rock with equal aplomb.
Berry
presides over the songs with his plangent vocals, which have grown less stentorian and more tender over time. Many of the songs deal with being lost, being alone, or searching, and he's able to transmit the subtleties of these feelings with little problem, which hasn't always been the case. The artistic and emotional growth has been steady from the start, but on
it's impossible not to be struck by how much in control
is. The music, words, and voices fit perfectly together, whether he's impressing with tracks as complicated as the amorphous space rock ballad "Be Alarmed" or as tricky as the jazz-rock "There Are Monsters"; stripping away any vestige of emotional armor on the gentle country-rocker "To Live for What Once Was"; or setting the controls for the heart of the psychedelic ("Wedding Photo Stranger," which comes complete with gonzo vocal effects). He's become a wizard at arrangements, and the record is full of little audio hooks that bring the songs to full technicolor life. The vocal choruses that pop up on most songs and give them a spooky, trippy layer are the most obvious. Other nice touches include the glimmering synths that sparkle and shine throughout, the mammoth guitar sound that kicks in when
solos, and the way he's able to piece together disparate sounds like acoustic guitars and Mellotrons, with the end result feeling quite organic. This kind of precise attention to sonic detail leads to a record that is an absolute treat to explore, digging deeper into the sound on each listen. That the songs have some real emotional kick is a sweet, sweet cherry on top.
has been releasing albums for a long time -- some of them inevitably better than others.
ranks right near the top, and if the sun hits it just right and one squints a little, it might be sitting merrily atop the very summit. ~ Tim Sendra
Matt Berry
released the 2025 album
Heard Noises
, he'd been making records for 30 years. That near lifetime of experience helps make it the most confident and expansive album of his career to date. He and a small band of cohorts -- most importantly drummer
Craig Blundell
-- conspire to delve deeply into psychedelia, coloring it with vocal choirs, swirling waves of effects, piercing guitar solos, and oscillating synths, while also swerving into folk-rock, retro-soul, and space rock with equal aplomb.
Berry
presides over the songs with his plangent vocals, which have grown less stentorian and more tender over time. Many of the songs deal with being lost, being alone, or searching, and he's able to transmit the subtleties of these feelings with little problem, which hasn't always been the case. The artistic and emotional growth has been steady from the start, but on
it's impossible not to be struck by how much in control
is. The music, words, and voices fit perfectly together, whether he's impressing with tracks as complicated as the amorphous space rock ballad "Be Alarmed" or as tricky as the jazz-rock "There Are Monsters"; stripping away any vestige of emotional armor on the gentle country-rocker "To Live for What Once Was"; or setting the controls for the heart of the psychedelic ("Wedding Photo Stranger," which comes complete with gonzo vocal effects). He's become a wizard at arrangements, and the record is full of little audio hooks that bring the songs to full technicolor life. The vocal choruses that pop up on most songs and give them a spooky, trippy layer are the most obvious. Other nice touches include the glimmering synths that sparkle and shine throughout, the mammoth guitar sound that kicks in when
solos, and the way he's able to piece together disparate sounds like acoustic guitars and Mellotrons, with the end result feeling quite organic. This kind of precise attention to sonic detail leads to a record that is an absolute treat to explore, digging deeper into the sound on each listen. That the songs have some real emotional kick is a sweet, sweet cherry on top.
has been releasing albums for a long time -- some of them inevitably better than others.
ranks right near the top, and if the sun hits it just right and one squints a little, it might be sitting merrily atop the very summit. ~ Tim Sendra
By the time
Matt Berry
released the 2025 album
Heard Noises
, he'd been making records for 30 years. That near lifetime of experience helps make it the most confident and expansive album of his career to date. He and a small band of cohorts -- most importantly drummer
Craig Blundell
-- conspire to delve deeply into psychedelia, coloring it with vocal choirs, swirling waves of effects, piercing guitar solos, and oscillating synths, while also swerving into folk-rock, retro-soul, and space rock with equal aplomb.
Berry
presides over the songs with his plangent vocals, which have grown less stentorian and more tender over time. Many of the songs deal with being lost, being alone, or searching, and he's able to transmit the subtleties of these feelings with little problem, which hasn't always been the case. The artistic and emotional growth has been steady from the start, but on
it's impossible not to be struck by how much in control
is. The music, words, and voices fit perfectly together, whether he's impressing with tracks as complicated as the amorphous space rock ballad "Be Alarmed" or as tricky as the jazz-rock "There Are Monsters"; stripping away any vestige of emotional armor on the gentle country-rocker "To Live for What Once Was"; or setting the controls for the heart of the psychedelic ("Wedding Photo Stranger," which comes complete with gonzo vocal effects). He's become a wizard at arrangements, and the record is full of little audio hooks that bring the songs to full technicolor life. The vocal choruses that pop up on most songs and give them a spooky, trippy layer are the most obvious. Other nice touches include the glimmering synths that sparkle and shine throughout, the mammoth guitar sound that kicks in when
solos, and the way he's able to piece together disparate sounds like acoustic guitars and Mellotrons, with the end result feeling quite organic. This kind of precise attention to sonic detail leads to a record that is an absolute treat to explore, digging deeper into the sound on each listen. That the songs have some real emotional kick is a sweet, sweet cherry on top.
has been releasing albums for a long time -- some of them inevitably better than others.
ranks right near the top, and if the sun hits it just right and one squints a little, it might be sitting merrily atop the very summit. ~ Tim Sendra
Matt Berry
released the 2025 album
Heard Noises
, he'd been making records for 30 years. That near lifetime of experience helps make it the most confident and expansive album of his career to date. He and a small band of cohorts -- most importantly drummer
Craig Blundell
-- conspire to delve deeply into psychedelia, coloring it with vocal choirs, swirling waves of effects, piercing guitar solos, and oscillating synths, while also swerving into folk-rock, retro-soul, and space rock with equal aplomb.
Berry
presides over the songs with his plangent vocals, which have grown less stentorian and more tender over time. Many of the songs deal with being lost, being alone, or searching, and he's able to transmit the subtleties of these feelings with little problem, which hasn't always been the case. The artistic and emotional growth has been steady from the start, but on
it's impossible not to be struck by how much in control
is. The music, words, and voices fit perfectly together, whether he's impressing with tracks as complicated as the amorphous space rock ballad "Be Alarmed" or as tricky as the jazz-rock "There Are Monsters"; stripping away any vestige of emotional armor on the gentle country-rocker "To Live for What Once Was"; or setting the controls for the heart of the psychedelic ("Wedding Photo Stranger," which comes complete with gonzo vocal effects). He's become a wizard at arrangements, and the record is full of little audio hooks that bring the songs to full technicolor life. The vocal choruses that pop up on most songs and give them a spooky, trippy layer are the most obvious. Other nice touches include the glimmering synths that sparkle and shine throughout, the mammoth guitar sound that kicks in when
solos, and the way he's able to piece together disparate sounds like acoustic guitars and Mellotrons, with the end result feeling quite organic. This kind of precise attention to sonic detail leads to a record that is an absolute treat to explore, digging deeper into the sound on each listen. That the songs have some real emotional kick is a sweet, sweet cherry on top.
has been releasing albums for a long time -- some of them inevitably better than others.
ranks right near the top, and if the sun hits it just right and one squints a little, it might be sitting merrily atop the very summit. ~ Tim Sendra
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