James Acaster's Perfect Sounds Series 1 Episodes Episode guide
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Suzi Ruffell & The Tut's Update Your Brain
Suzi adores the melodic feminist anthems on this debut punk album.
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Suzi Ruffell & the One Women Orchestra
Suzi is dazzled and slightly confused by this dreamlike Latvian album.
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Sophie Duker & samba-punk
Sophie shocks James with a secret as they discuss a samba-punk fusion album.
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Sophie Duker & a raw, genre-hopping record
Sophie is back and absolutely loves Mal Devisa's debut album Kiid.
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Sindhu Vee & Death Grip’s Bottomless Pit
Sindhu Vee puts in the effort for the experimental hip hop trio.
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Sindhu Vee & conceptual club bangers
Sindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval.
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Sarah Keyworth & bedroom indie-pop
Sarah learns about the hidden depths of this intriguing bedroom indie-pop album.
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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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Romesh Ranganathan & head-scrambling math rap
Romesh is delighted to discover Badd Timing by The Sooper Swag Project.
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Romesh Ranganathan & BeyoncΓ©'s Lemonade
Romesh discovers the album that changed James' mind about pop.
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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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Rob Deering & 80s stadium-rock-pop
Rob learns to love an album that sounds like stadium rock for an anime film in the 80s.
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Rachel Parris & blissful ambient folk
Rachel is drawn to the folk side of Karima Walker's album.
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Phil Wang & Eurosceptic hip-hop
Phil gets to grips with a Eurosceptic experimental hip-hop album, and tacos.
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Phil Wang & electronic Mexican folk
Phil absolutely loves Me DemandΓ³ DEMOS by San Cha.
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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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Nish Kumar & Bon Iver's 22, A Million
Bon Iver fan Nish listens for the first time to the band's 2016 experimental masterpiece.
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Nathaniel Metcalfe & live improvised blues
Nathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues by Mike Cooper.
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Nathaniel Metcalfe & David Bowie’s Blackstar
Bowie fan Nathaniel revisits his brilliant final album.
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Mae Martin and a drone folk crossover
Mae gets dark and moody to drone folk by Irish singer-songwriter Katie Kim.
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Mae Martin & Jeff Rosenstock's Worry
Mae Martin is thrilled by the album from which the podcast takes its name.
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Kwame Asante & outsider grime
Kwame is persuaded by grime artist Trim's collaboration with James Blake's label.
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Kwame Asante & noise rock
Kwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by Doomsday Student.
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Kemah Bob & Noname's Telefone
Kemah is a huge fan of this beautiful debut mixtape from rapper Noname.
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Kemah Bob & Colombian Crunch
Kemah Bob marvels at this brand new genre from the band Pixvae.
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John Kearns & teenage three piece rock
John prefers the second half of Out of Sight by Falling.
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John Kearns & celebratory North African sampled vinyl
John wants to dance to Tunisian producer and DJ Ghoula's celebratory album Hlib El Ghoula
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Joe Sutherland & grindcore
Joe takes a metaphorical HIIT class with a relentless grindcore album.
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Joe Sutherland & Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial
Joe has the pleasure of a massive indie hit for his second appearance on the podcast.
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Jen Brister & Laura Mvula's The Dreaming Room
Jen discovers why this award-winning album got Laura Mvula dropped from her label.