James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
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Rosie Jones & Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool
2 juli 2021 · 29 min
Beluister deze afleveringBoth James and Rosie have always felt intimidated about getting into Radiohead's back catalogue because of their hard-core fans. Can this album, from one of the biggest bands in the world, win them over? And more importantly convince Rosie that 2016 is the greatest year for music of all time? Lees meer
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2016 is back and more perfect than before!
24 juni 2021 · 7 min
Beluister deze afleveringFor James Acaster 2016 is the greatest year for music, ever. Since launching the podcast his record collection has grown to over 700 albums from that year and he wants to share his obsession with even more comedian friends... but will they admit that 2016 is the great year for music of all time? Lees meer
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Eleanor Tiernan & Run The Jewels 3
30 april 2021 · 29 min
Beluister deze afleveringEleanor Tiernan is drawn in by hip-hop duo Run The Jewel's critically acclaimed epic third album. Lees meer
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John Kearns & celebratory North African sampled vinyl
16 april 2021 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringJohn Kearns wants to dance to Tunisian producer and DJ Ghoula's celebratory album Hlib El Ghoula, which features rare North African vinyl that the artist sourced from Tunisian markets then sampled and scratched with live instrumentals.
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Rachel Parris & an orchestral art-rock collaboration
9 april 2021 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringClassically trained Rachel Parris dissects the one-off album Balter/Saunier, a collaboration between the Chicago orchestra Ensemble Dal Niente, influential art-rock band Deerhoof, and Brazilian composer Marcos Balter.
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Jen Brister & experimental Majorcan folk
2 april 2021 · 22 min
Beluister deze afleveringJen Brister has a strong reaction to 'Folk Souvenir', an album by Joana Gomila that uses field recordings and improvisation to bring a new approach to traditional Majorcan folk.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Joana Gomila & Dr Judith R Cohen
1 april 2021 · 23 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames talks to Joana Gomila and Dr Judith R Cohen about the Spanish folk recordings of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and the making of Joana's album 'Folk Souvenir'.
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Jack Rooke & thoughtful inventive indie
26 maart 2021 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringJack is over the moon to be introduced to all 24 tracks of Thoughts Lined Up by award-winning artist Martin Creed.
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Alison Spittle & extreme industrial metal
19 maart 2021 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringAlison is willing to persevere with the album End Position by experimental Texan duo Street Sects.
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Dane Baptiste & infinite looping psych rock
12 maart 2021 · 30 min
Beluister deze afleveringDane enjoys the frantic Nonagen Infinity by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the eighth album from the prolific Australian psych rock band.
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BONUS SOUNDS: The Tuts
5 maart 2021 · 40 min
Beluister deze afleveringHayes-based three-piece The Tuts take James on a tour of their hometown including their rehearsal room, a local radio station and the venue for one of their early gigs.
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Suzi Ruffell & The Tut's Update Your Brain
5 maart 2021 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringSuzi adores the melodic feminist anthems on this debut punk album from Hayes-based three-piece The Tuts.
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Guz Khan & generational jazz rap
26 februari 2021 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringGuz is up for giving the self-titled project by Sélébéyone another chance. The album features two saxophonists and two rappers, Senegal's Gaston Bandimic and HPrizm from the US.
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Athena Kugblenu & Frank Ocean’s Blonde
19 februari 2021 · 30 min
Beluister deze afleveringAs a huge fan of his debut mixtape nostalgia, Ultra, Athena is underwhelmed by Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde.
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Gabriel Ebulue & personal beat-fired balladry
12 februari 2021 · 23 min
Beluister deze afleveringGabriel is excited to be introduced to For Good by Fog, a crowd-funded comeback from Minneapolis musician Andrew Broder.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Drummers Adam Betts & Seb Rochford
5 februari 2021 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringAdam and Seb bring their drum kits along to talk to James about the virtuosic drumming on Jon Bap's 'What Now?'. Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios in London.
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Rob Deering & outsider soul music
5 februari 2021 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringRob Deering is up for the challenge of Jon Bap's 'What Now?', an album that James describes as one of the most life-changing from his whole 2016 project.
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Nish Kumar & Kevin Abstract's American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
29 januari 2021 · 29 min
Beluister deze afleveringNish is blown away by this concept album from Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract. The album tells the story of him growing up in Texas with homophobic parents and a racist boyfriend.
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Sindhu Vee & conceptual club bangers
22 januari 2021 · 25 min
Beluister deze afleveringSindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval, a 2016 solo project by glitch pioneer Markus Popp.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Akenya, Cam O'Bi and Phoelix on Noname'sTelefone
15 januari 2021 · 24 min
Beluister deze afleveringThree of Noname's key collaborators from the Chicago scene share their memories of helping to create her debut mixtape.
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Kemah Bob & Noname's Telefone
15 januari 2021 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringKemah is a huge fan of this beautiful debut mixtape, written and recorded by rapper Noname and collaborators in LA and Chicago.
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Felicity Ward & nostalgic American indie
8 januari 2021 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringFelicity is super in to Not Good At Spending Time Alone A.K.A. Cleanliness by Market, a project written and recorded by New York based musician Nate Mendelsohn.
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Nathaniel Metcalfe & live improvised blues
1 januari 2021 · 23 min
Beluister deze afleveringNathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues, an album recorded by Mike Cooper live in Geneva.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby & Ed Gamble
25 december 2020 · 47 min
Beluister deze afleveringA Christmas treat for you featuring James, Matthew and Ed on seeing Jeff Rosenstock live and then an interview with the man himself about his album Worry.
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Mae Martin & Jeff Rosenstock's Worry
25 december 2020 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringMae Martin is thrilled by the album from which the podcast takes its name. The final track on the punk musician's second solo album is called Perfect Sound Whatever.
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Jamali Maddix & screamcore rap
18 december 2020 · 23 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames is attempting to win Jamali's support for 2016 with the album SUI // RAP by youngster jiji, the brainchild of Seattle rapper James Campbell.
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Foonyap
11 december 2020 · 20 min
Beluister deze afleveringFoonyap talks to James about the mental and emotional struggles that inspired her beautiful album Palimpsest.
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Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk
11 december 2020 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringDesiree is in two minds about Palimpsest by the classically trained Canadian musician Foonyap.
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Phil Wang & electronic Mexican folk
4 december 2020 · 24 min
Beluister deze afleveringPhil absolutely loves Me Demandó DEMOS, recorded by San Cha on the farm where her mother grew up, without the opportunity to collaborate with a producer.
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Evelyn Mok & a technophobic metal nightmare
27 november 2020 · 24 min
Beluister deze afleveringEvelyn is back and introduced to Boy Man Machine by Drose, an album that fuses experimental metal with sounds recorded in a factory.
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Romesh Ranganathan & head-scrambling math rap
20 november 2020 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringRomesh is delighted to discover Badd Timing by The Sooper Swag Project, an album recorded with the intention of using as many different and difficult time signatures as possible.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Cyril Yeterian from Bongo Joe
13 november 2020 · 18 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames explores the mystery behind Song I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle, with the head honcho of one of the two record labels behind its release, Bongo Joe.
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Sarah Keyworth & a mysterious choral album
13 november 2020 · 24 min
Beluister deze afleveringSarah needs convincing about the story behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle, supposedly recorded spontaneously by Swedish artist Isak Sundstrom at a Church in Mexico.
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Joe Sutherland & Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial
6 november 2020 · 22 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames has selected one of the biggest indie albums of the year for Joe's second appearance on the pod, Teens of Denial from songwriter Will Toledo's Car Seat Headrest.
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Sophie Duker & a raw, genre-hopping record
30 oktober 2020 · 20 min
Beluister deze afleveringSophie is back! Last time she wasn’t completely won round, so James goes all in with the crowd-funded debut album Kiid from Mal Devisa.
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Rachel Parris & blissful ambient folk
23 oktober 2020 · 29 min
Beluister deze afleveringRachel is drawn to the folk side of Hands In Our Names, an album recorded by Karima Walker in the desert of New Mexico.
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Kwame Asante & noise rock
16 oktober 2020 · 29 min
Beluister deze afleveringKwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by noise rock supergroup Doomsday Student.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Netty Rhodes & the SWeet Recorder Consort
9 oktober 2020 · 13 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames attempts to learn Morning Thought by Surface To Air Missive from scratch with recorder teacher Netty Rhodes and the SWeet Recorder Consort.
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Eleanor Tiernan & recorder prog folk rock
9 oktober 2020 · 32 min
Beluister deze afleveringEleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive, a solo project from the musician Taylor Ross.
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John Kearns & teenage three piece rock
2 oktober 2020 · 22 min
Beluister deze afleveringJohn prefers the second half of Out of Sight by the former Minneapolis rock band Falling.
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Alison Spittle & dark spoken word
25 september 2020 · 23 min
Beluister deze afleveringAlison has a strong reaction to Rook to TN34, a dark, experimental and comedic spoken word album by the duo eMMplekz.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Damien Cluzel
18 september 2020 · 21 min
Beluister deze afleveringJames chats to the guitarist at the heart of two of his favourite 2016 albums, Awo by uKanDanZ and the self-titled release by Pixvae.
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Guz Khan & Ethiopian Crunch
18 september 2020 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringGuz is on board with this hybrid of hard rock and Ethiopian music that features on the album Awo by uKanDanZ.
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Kemah Bob & Colombian Crunch
11 september 2020 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringKemah Bob marvels at this self-titled album from the band Pixvae. The album combines traditional South Colombian music with Math Rock to create a brand new genre.
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Jack Rooke & twisted-pop
4 september 2020 · 24 min
Beluister deze afleveringJack Rooke meets NHS nurse Law Holt's diva alter ego, a persona who spits and cheats in her twisted pop album City.
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Athena Kugblenu & Japanese folk-indie-jazz fusion
28 augustus 2020 · 26 min
Beluister deze afleveringAthena Kugblenu gets into Aragehonzi's one of kind album, Hanatsuoto, that fuses Japanese folk with neo-soul, funk, jazz, rock, indie, and everything in between.
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Gabriel Ebulue & Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Skeleton Tree
21 augustus 2020 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringGabriel Ebulue shares his love for Skeleton Tree, the ominous and emotional album steeped in Nick Cave's personal tragedy.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Kojey Radical
14 augustus 2020 · 28 min
Beluister deze afleveringA bonus conversation with British rapper and spoken word artist Kojey Radical recorded live at the 6Music Festival, discussing themes of love, his connection to his Ghanaian heritage and his dad.
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Dane Baptiste & Kojey Radical’s 23Winters
14 augustus 2020 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringHip-hop fan Dane discovers Kojey Radical's masterful 23Winters for the first time. At 42 minutes the EP spans rap, spoken word, and a conversation with Kojey's dad that covers themes of love, life in London, and their Ghanaian heritage. Which makes James ask, is this really an EP? Lees meer
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Mae Martin and a drone folk crossover
7 augustus 2020 · 27 min
Beluister deze afleveringMae Martin gets dark and moody to the drone folk crossover album Salt, by Irish singer-songwriter Katie Kim. Plus the track James will judge your music taste on.