Name: Witchazel
Brand: Matt Berry

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

AJXLP251B

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Colour

brown

Colour details

Caramel

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-08-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0676499025192

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / brown

Artist

Matt Berry

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Acid Jazz

Matt Berry has starred as eccentric explorer Dixon Bainbridge in the Mighty Boosh and Douglas Reynholm in the it crowd but <i>Witchazel</i> is Berry's voyage into the heart of the countryside, where strange things happen and barn doors go creak in the night. Recorded almost entirely in his front room, it is a collection of thirteen songs which will touch a central nerve with anyone with a fondness for British psychedelia and / or '70's folk. for Matt, it's a labour of love, pure and simple. Veering between spooked folk laments ('accident at a harvest festival'), space rock tapestries (eight minute epic 'the pheasant') and Donovan-esque pop ('look in my book'), it's quite simply a stunning record; the sort of woodland fantasia Fleet Foxes would make had they grown up in within earshot of the m25. If the massed mellotrons, fruity hammond and prog-rock inflections (check out 'from the manger to the mortuary') makes it feel like a lost classic you've found in the racks of your favourite second hand record shop, it's deliberate.

Witchazel

Music GB