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Matt Berry • Heard Noises

Acid Jazz UK • released 2025-01-24

Matt Berry returns, this time emerging from his velvet time machine with a suitcase full of pop psychedelia worthy of a light show and some very stiff drinks, and you are but a wide-eyed innocent allowed to hang out at his groovy pad.

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