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Athena Kugblenu & Frank Ocean’s Blonde
As a fan of his debut mixtape, Athena is underwhelmed by Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde.
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Gabriel Ebulue & personal beat-fired balladry
Gabriel is excited to be introduced to For Good by Fog from musician Andrew Broder.
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Bonus Sounds: Drummers Adam Betts & Seb Rochford
Adam and Seb bring their drum kits along to discuss the drumming on Jon Bap's 'What Now?'
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Rob Deering & outsider soul music
Rob Deering is up for the challenge of Jon Bap's 'What Now?'
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Nish Kumar & Kevin Abstract's American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
Nish is blown away by this concept album from Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract.
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Sindhu Vee & conceptual club bangers
Sindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval by Markus Popp.
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Bonus Sounds: Akenya, Cam O'Bi and Phoelix on Noname'sTelefone
Noname's key collaborators share their memories of helping to create her debut mixtape.
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Kemah Bob & Noname's Telefone
Kemah is a fan of this debut mixtape written and recorded by rapper Noname & collaborators
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Felicity Ward & nostalgic American indie
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
Nathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues, recorded by Mike Cooper
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Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby & Ed Gamble
A Christmas treat for you featuring James, Matthew and Ed on seeing Jeff Rosenstock live.
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Mae Martin & Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
Mae Martin is thrilled by the album from which the podcast takes its name.
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Phil Wang & electronic Mexican folk
Phil absolutely loves Me DemandΓ³ DEMOS, recorded by San Cha.
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Jamali Maddix & youngster jiji - SUI / / RAP
James is attempting to win Jamali's support for 2016 with the album SUI // RAP by jiji.
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Bonus Sounds: Foonyap
Foonyap talks to James about the struggles that inspired her beautiful album Palimpsest.
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Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk
Desiree is in two minds about Palimpsest by classically trained Canadian musician Foonyap.
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Evelyn Mok & a technophobic metal nightmare
Evelyn is back and introduced to Boy Man Machine by Drose.
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Romesh Ranganathan & head-scrambling math rap
Romesh is delighted to discover Badd Timing by The Sooper Swag Project.
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Bonus Sounds: Cyril Yeterian from Bongo Joe
James explores the mystery behind Song I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle.
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Sarah Keyworth & a mysterious choral album
Sarah needs convincing about the story behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle.
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Joe Sutherland & Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial
James has selected one of the biggest indie albums of the year for Joe.
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Sophie Duker & a raw, genre-hopping record
Sophie is back! James goes all in with the crowd-funded debut album Kiid from Mal Devisa.
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Rachel Parris & blissful ambient folk
Rachel is drawn to the folk side of Hands In Our Names, an album by Karima Walker.
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Kwame Asante & noise rock
Kwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by noise rock supergroup Doomsday Student.
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Eleanor Tiernan & recorder prog folk rock
Eleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive, by musician Taylor Ross.
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John Kearns & teenage three piece rock
John prefers the second half of Out of Sight by the former Minneapolis rock band, Falling.
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Alison Spittle and dark spoken word
Alison has a strong reaction to Rook to TN34, a spoken word album by the duo eMMplekz.
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Bonus Sounds: Damien Cluzel
James chats to the guitarist at the heart of two of his favourite 2016 albums.
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Guz Khan & Ethiopian Crunch
Guz is on board for a hybrid of hard rock and Ethiopian music on the album Awo by uKanDanZ
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Kemah Bob & Colombian Crunch
Kemah Bob marvels at this self-titled album from the band Pixvae.
