James Acaster's Perfect Sounds Podcast
James Acaster tries to convince comedians that 2016 is the greatest year for music, ever.
For James Acaster 2016 is the greatest year for music of all time. Following a breakup James set out to rekindle his love for music by buying hundreds of new and niche releases from 2016. Now he's sharing his obsession with fellow comedians, exploring his favourite albums: from BeyoncΓ©'s internet-breaking Lemonade, to Colombian math rock fusion, and everything in between.
Episodes to download
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BONUS SOUNDS: Drummers Adam Betts & Seb Rochford—Series 1
Fri 5 Feb 2021
Adam and Seb bring their drum kits along to talk about Jon Bap's 'What Now?'
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Nish Kumar & Kevin Abstract's American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story—Series 1
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Nish is blown away by this concept album from Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract.
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Sindhu Vee & conceptual club bangers—Series 1
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Sindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval.
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Kemah Bob & Noname's Telefone—Series 1
Fri 15 Jan 2021
Kemah is a huge fan of this beautiful debut mixtape from rapper Noname.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Akenya, Cam O'Bi and Phoelix on Noname'sTelefone—Series 1
Fri 15 Jan 2021
Three key collaborators share their memories of helping create Noname's debut mixtape.
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Felicity Ward & nostalgic American indie—Series 1
Fri 8 Jan 2021
Felicity is super in to Not Good At Spending Time Alone A.K.A. Cleanliness by Market.
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Nathaniel Metcalfe & live improvised blues—Series 1
New Year's Day 2021
Nathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues by Mike Cooper.
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Mae Martin & Jeff Rosenstock's Worry—Series 1
Christmas Day 2020
Mae Martin is thrilled by the album from which the podcast takes its name.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby & Ed Gamble—Series 1
Christmas Day 2020
A Christmas treat featuring an interview with Jeff Rosenstock about his album Worry.
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Jamali Maddix & screamcore rap—Series 1
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Jamali is impressed with SUI // RAP by youngster jiji.
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Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk—Series 1
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Desiree is in two minds about Foonyap's Palimpsest.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Foonyap—Series 1
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Foonyap on the mental and emotional struggles that inspired her album Palimpsest.
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Phil Wang & electronic Mexican folk—Series 1
Fri 4 Dec 2020
Phil absolutely loves Me DemandΓ³ DEMOS by San Cha.
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Evelyn Mok & a technophobic metal nightmare—Series 1
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Evelyn is back and introduced to Boy Man Machine by Drose.
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Romesh Ranganathan & head-scrambling math rap—Series 1
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Romesh is delighted to discover Badd Timing by The Sooper Swag Project.
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Sarah Keyworth & a mysterious choral album—Series 1
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Sarah needs convincing about the story behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Cyril Yeterian from Bongo Joe—Series 1
Fri 13 Nov 2020
James explores the mystery behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle.
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Joe Sutherland & Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial—Series 1
Fri 6 Nov 2020
Joe has the pleasure of a massive indie hit for his second appearance on the podcast.
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Sophie Duker & a raw, genre-hopping record—Series 1
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Sophie is back and absolutely loves Mal Devisa's debut album Kiid.
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Rachel Parris & blissful ambient folk—Series 1
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Rachel is drawn to the folk side of Karima Walker's album.
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Kwame Asante & noise rock—Series 1
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Kwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by Doomsday Student.
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Eleanor Tiernan & recorder prog folk rock—Series 1
Fri 9 Oct 2020
Eleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Netty Rhodes & the SWeet Recorder Consort—Series 1
Fri 9 Oct 2020
James attempts to learn Morning Thought by Surface To Air Missive from scratch.
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John Kearns & teenage three piece rock—Series 1
Fri 2 Oct 2020
John prefers the second half of Out of Sight by Falling.
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Alison Spittle & dark spoken word—Series 1
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Alison has a strong reaction to Rook to TN34 by eMMplekz.
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Guz Khan & Ethiopian Crunch—Series 1
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Guz is on board with this hybrid of hard rock and Ethiopian music.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Damien Cluzel—Series 1
Fri 18 Sep 2020
James chats to the guitarist at the heart of both the uKanDanZ and Pixvae albums.
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Kemah Bob & Colombian Crunch—Series 1
Fri 11 Sep 2020
Kemah Bob marvels at this brand new genre from the band Pixvae.
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Jack Rooke & twisted-pop—Series 1
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Jack meets the NHS nurse Law Holt's cheating diva alter ego in her twisted pop album.
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Athena Kugblenu & Japanese folk-indie-jazz fusion—Series 1
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Athena gets into this one of kind album that fuses Japanese folk with many genres.
