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James Acaster's Perfect Sounds Episodes

  2. Sara Barron & retro indie-pop

    Sara feels very Parisian listening to Cate Le Bon's Crab Day.

  3. Thanyia Moore & Rihanna's ANTI

    Thanyia Moore goes on a rollercoaster journey with Rihanna's most personal album yet, ANTI

  4. James' dad - Johnnie Frierson - Have You Been Good To Yourself

    James talks to his dad about the Johnnie Frierson album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

  5. Jayde Adams & self-penned gospel

    Jayde reminisces life through Johnnie Frierson's Have You Been Good To Yourself.

  6. Harriet Kemsley & Krip Hop

    Harriet Kemsley warms to Wheelchair Sports Camp's avant-garde rap album No Big Deal.

  7. Rhys Nicholson & gothic Americana

    Rhys enjoys a negroni to Marisa Nadler's dreamy gothic folk album.

  8. Charlie George & Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered

    Charlie is pushed out of her dad-rock habits by one of the world's most acclaimed rappers.

  9. Toussaint Douglass & eccentric indie

    Toussaint thinks James hates him after listening to Four Thing by Four Thing.

  10. Andrew Falkous - Christian Fitness

    James and friend David Trent chat to the man behind Christian Fitness, Andrew Falkous.

  11. Maisie Adam & comedic post-punk

    Maisie is grabbed by the one-man band Christian Fitness and This Taco Is Not Correct.

  12. Aaron Chen & dark reggae

    Aaron tries to be happy during Mournful Skank's sad and dark reggae album, Ghost Hunter.

  13. Kiri Pritchard-Mclean & experimental sampling hip hop

    Kiri is shoved around by Coin Locker Kid's 9 experimental album The Salmon of Doubt.

  14. Dai Henwood & the house party concept album

    Dai Henwood enjoys doing his taxes to Andy Shauf's indie concept album The Party.

  15. Isy Suttie & a drum duo

    Multi-instrumentalist and comedian Isy Suttie is engulfed by the self-titled album Rattle.

  16. Chloe Petts & bedroom indie pop

    Chloe Petts discovers that Frankie Cosmos is exactly her kind of DIY bedroom indie pop.

  17. Ahir Shah & a blissful sound collage

    Ahir finds a blissfully mellow album that he'd like to chop vegetables to.

  18. Radiohead's Colin Greenwood

    James visits Colin Greenwood at home to discuss making 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool.

  19. Rosie Jones & Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool

    James and Rosie have always felt intimidated about getting into Radiohead's back catalogue

  20. Eleanor Tiernan & Run The Jewels 3

    Eleanor Tiernan is drawn in by hip-hop duo Run The Jewel's acclaimed epic third album.

  21. John Kearns & celebratory North African sampled vinyl

    John Kearns wants to dance to Tunisian producer and DJ Ghoula's album, Hlib El Ghoula.

  22. Rachel Parris & an orchestral art-rock collaboration

    Classically trained Rachel Parris dissects the one-off album Balter/Saunier

  23. Bonus Sounds: Joana Gomila & Dr Judith R Cohen

    James talks to Joana Gomila and Dr Judith R Cohen about Spanish folk recordings.

  24. Jen Brister & experimental Majorcan folk

    Jen Brister has a strong reaction to 'Folk Souvenir', an album by Joana Gomila.

  25. Jack Rooke & thoughtful inventive indie

    Jack is over the moon to be introduced to 24 tracks of Thoughts Lined Up by Martin Creed

  26. Alison Spittle & extreme industrial metal

    Alison is willing to persevere with the album End Position by Texan duo Street Sects.

  27. Bonus Sounds: The Tuts

    Hayes-based three-piece The Tuts take James on a tour of their hometown.

  28. Suzi Ruffell & The Tut's Update Your Brain

    Suzi adores the melodic feminist anthems on this debut punk album from The Tuts.

  29. Dane Baptiste & infinite looping psych rock

    Dane enjoys the frantic Nonagen Infinity by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

  30. Guz Khan & generational jazz rap

    Guz is up for giving the self-titled project by SΓ©lΓ©bΓ©yone another chance.

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