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INTERVIEW: Matt Berry

- Source: The Quietus

Next week sees the release of Matt Berry's fourth album, Kill The Wolf , out via Acid Jazz, and we've got a first play of the album in its entirety - have a listen below: While his primary modus operandi is as a comic actor, taking up roles in various British comedies, most notably Garth Marenghi's Darkplace , The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd , Berry's also had a steady stream of excellent, idiosyncratic musical output.

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A User's Guide To The New Psychedelia

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Psychedelia is all peace and love, LSD and second hand weed, sitars and protests against the Vietnam War. It's supposed to be as dead as Jim Morrison, as relevant as Harold Wilson's pirate radio policy and as naff as Austin Powers' underwear.

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Django Django

- Source: Under The Radar Magazine

Arguably the breakthrough indie band of 2012, Scottish art rock four-piece Django Django consists of David Maclean (drummer, producer), Vincent Neff (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Dixon (bass), and Tommy Grace (synths).

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The Madness of King Robert George

- Source: Plain or Pan?

Robert George Meek was better known as Joe Meek. A maverick record constructor, sonic architect and visionary of what was possible from the seemingly impossible, he led a turbulent life, permanently perched on the line right between madness and genius.

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Clinic: Free Reign

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Now 15 years into their career, Clinic have left their surgical masks on longer than KISS initially kept on their make-up, and this rigid visual motif makes it easy to overlook the Liverpool art-rock quartet's evolution.

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Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

- Source: The Quietus

It's a risky business comparing female artists to one another, shoehorning an artist into a limited referential framework due to, as Tori Amos once noted, there being "too many tits in the room".

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Jim Noir – Jimmy’s Show

- Source: The Line Of Best Fit

There's a lot of tea drinking on Jim Noir 's latest album, but the stuff that once galvanized a proud nation seems little more than a metaphor for the mundanities of daily life: characters stumbling awkwardly out of bed ('The Tired Hairy Man With Parts'), worrying about getting mugged on the way to the shops ('Tea'), "smiling" too long down the phone ('Sunny') or making trouble on British roads ('Driving My Escort Cosworth To The Cake Circus').

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Fifty Outsiders : 11 - 20

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Personalised inner turmoil roles while becoming a heartthrob in films such as From Here To Eternity, Clift got into booze and prescription drugs after a disfiguring 1956 car crash, his drug-addled post-accident career described as 'the longest suicide in Hollywood', which finished in July, 1966. 13.

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Introducing // I Ching

- Source: The Line Of Best Fit

It is fair to say we get excited about a lot of new bands here at Best Fit, but occasionally there are those that have us borderline obsessed, such was the case with I Ching , so much so in fact that we decided to put their debut single out on our fledging label.

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