Opium (studio album)
by Matt Berry

Opium by Matt Berry
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-04-07
Overall rank: 95,498th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 2 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2008 (2,056th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (18,351st)
Award Best albums of all time (95,498th)

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Matt Berry bestography

Opium is ranked 5th best out of 11 albums by Matt Berry on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Matt Berry is The Blue Elephant which is ranked number 38829 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19.

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2024 mutley88Top 17 Music Albums of 20086/174
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Really solid debut (effectively - there is an earlier album but Berry himself has dismissed it as "not good enough", and it can't be found online or on physical media formats). Catchy tunes, killer musicianship, and a pretty consistent tracklist with only a few songs here or there that don't really hit the mark. Conceptual flourishes like the weird spoken word pieces and the recurrence of songs and melodic motifs give a great sense of cohesion. Berry's lyrics are not the best, but they're not terrible, and the atmosphere he conjures is so damn effective that it ends up not mattering too much. Really underrated record from an underappreciated musician - though of course, he has a big following for his acting; I'm talking only about his music career when I call him underappreciated.
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