“One of the few truly psychedelic records made in recent years. An acid stew of remarkable proportions. A minor hours masterpiece.”
– NME
“A very strange record indeed, Burning Blue Soul at once establishes Matt Johnson as a Great British Eccentric.”
– THE GUARDIAN
“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 first LP’s to use drum loops and sampling. Well worth a listen.”
– BIG ISSUE
“Track after track of resonant English multi-dimensional mind-blowing music. He should be mightily proud of his achievement.”
– RECORD MIRROR ****
“One feels sheepish analysing Johnson’s self-obvious desire to exercise his weirdness. Weird is weird. The kid is weird alright.”
– SOUNDS
“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
“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
“There is a subtle uneasiness to the whole album that is both beautiful yet disturbing.”
– ZIGZAG
