Phil Mongredien 

Music for Insomniacs review – comedian Matt Berry makes an ill-judged foray into electronica

The fifth album by The IT Crowd's Matt Berry recalls a drowsy Jean Michel Jarre, writes Phil Mongredien
  
  


Best known for his roles in The IT Crowd and The Mighty Boosh, comedian Matt Berry also has a stop-start musical career going back 20 years. His fifth album marks a radical departure from his most recent folk/prog crossover fare. Created in the dead of night while unable to sleep, Music for Insomniacs is 46 minutes of tinkling, shape-shifting electronica, intercut with snippets of mumbled speech and simple keyboard riffs. It's not dissimilar to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene stripped of its most memorable passages, and might well do what it suggests on the cover. But those hypnotic washes of sound go beyond their remit and could have us all dozing off.

 

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