Matt Berry's first two albums to get vinyl reissues

Matt Berry is to have his first two solo releases reissued on vinyl. Witchhazel and Kill The Wolf will be reissued through Acid Jazz on August 20.

Berry signed to Acid Jazz in 2011, that same year the groundbreaking record label released Matt’s Witchazel album. Featuring the theme from his BAFTA Award winning TV show Toast Of London, Take My Hand, it is his biggest selling album and has been out of print on vinyl for several years.

In 2013 Acid Jazz released Matt’s second album Kill The Wolf. Building on and expanding on the sound of his label debut it mixed baroque folk with psychedelia. The album includes the well-received single Medicine, the ruralistic Gather Up, as featured in What We Do In The Shadows, and the nine-minute Solstice which was championed by BBC Radio 6 Music.

Witchazel will be available as a caramel vinyl edition while Kill The Wolf will be reissued on bottle green vinyl.

Since the release of these two albums, Matt has released a further six more records on the Acid Jazz label. His most recent, The Blue Elephant, is a sensory, psychedelic backseat joyride exploring the disorientation and distortions of modern life.

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.