Kitty Empire 

Matt Berry: Witchazel – review

Mighty Boosh star Matt Berry's debut album isn't quite as amusing as its cover would suggest, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


You already know actor Matt Berry – he's the boss in The IT Crowd and a veteran of The Mighty Boosh and late-night horror send-up Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. The cover of his debut album promises more deranged satire. A caped Berry holds up a pheasant, every inch the hairy 70s prog-folk vestige. But Berry's music only lives up to this visual promise intermittently. "So Low" is a well-turned 60s romp; the garish guitar solo on "Woman" is pitched perfectly. But Berry misses a trick by not making use of his comedic baritone and much of Witchazel noodles past adequately, nailing the period nicely, but failing to really enchant or amuse.

 

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