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Music for Insomniacs

Matt Berry

Music for Insomniacs

An album of instrumental new age synth music from the comedian and musician perhaps best known for his roles on the IT Crowd and The Mighty Boosh

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Acid Jazz
UK Release date
19/05/2014
US Release date
19/05/2014
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A synth fantasia of dreamy soundscapes for the wakeful, but with a greater dynamism and more grandiose scale and momentum than most ambient music
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    This is a purely solo project, with our sleep-deprived hero playing every note and adding every sinister sound effect
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  3. 7.0 |   NME

    The sparse, calm arrangements are a fascinating contrast to the largely brash, high-octane characters he’s more known for on TV
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  4. 6.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    There is no doubting Matt Berry’s talents as a composer of absurd mood-music of nightmare proportions, and if there was a niche there to be filled then he more than fills it
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  5. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Berry uses a combination of fluid synths and more peculiar, disruptive elements to evoke a dreamy disassociation that’s both relaxing and borderline hysterical
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  6. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    'Music for Insomniacs' could have been issued by Virgin Records in 1974
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  7. 6.0 |   Crack

    An admirable attempt. Music For Insomniacs may not be for all, but it’s no laughing matter either
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  8. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Not dissimilar to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene stripped of its most memorable passages
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