BURNING BLUE SOUL

"He explores the joys of melancholy with a nakedness that could only have been equalled by John Lennon on a gigantic existential downer. Burning Blue Soul is a bona fide 22 carat desert island disc. It wouldn’t be going over the top to say this record stands altogether alone.”
- MELODY MAKER

"One of the few truly psychedelic records made in recent years. An acid stew of remarkable proportions. A minor hours masterpiece.”
- NME

"Track after track of resonant English multi dimensional mind blowing music. He should be mightily proud of his achievement.”
- RECORD MIRROR ****

"A very strange record indeed, Burning Blue Soul at once establishes Matt Johnson as a Great British Eccentric.”
- THE GUARDIAN

"Matt Johnson’s life and soul are involved with uncompromising music. This is soul as in spirit not the young American sound or a replica of something on the Stax label. Burning Blue Soul deserves to be heard”
- HOT PRESS

"One feels sheepish analysing Johnson’s self obvious desire to exercise his weirdness. Weird is weird. The kid is weird alright.”
- SOUNDS

"A mixture of clattering instrumentals and deranged ranting sprees. There is no doubting the voice, the vision or the already forbidding atmosphere of paranoia. “
- SELECT

"One of the first LP’s to use drum loops and sampling. Well worth a listen.”
- BIG ISSUE

"There is a subtle uneasiness to the whole album that is both beautiful yet disturbing.”
- ZIGZAG

"A brand new surrealistic world of neo psychedelia. He’s a 20 year old with a promising future. His music, distorted and surrealistic, dissolves and flows out. Just like looking into a convex mirror.”
- ROCK MAGAZINE

“There are many influences coming from practically 101 sources, present on this album. strange tape collages of looped Eastern sounding chanting with lots of percussion, avant garde piano and sustained guitar playing. A name to look out for in the future. I’m sure there’s a lot of interesting stuff to yet come from Matt.”
THE FANZINE