BONUS SOUNDS: The Tuts
Hayes-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.
Mar 05, 2021•40 min
James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
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 Beyoncé's internet-breaking Lemonade, to Colombian math rock fusion, and everything in between.
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Episodes
Suzi Ruffell & The Tut's Update Your Brain
Suzi adores the melodic feminist anthems on this debut punk album from Hayes-based three-piece The Tuts.
Mar 05, 2021•28 min
Guz Khan & generational jazz rap
Guz 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.
Feb 26, 2021•26 min
Athena Kugblenu & Frank Ocean’s Blonde
As a huge fan of his debut mixtape nostalgia, Ultra, Athena is underwhelmed by Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde.
Feb 19, 2021•30 min
Gabriel Ebulue & personal beat-fired balladry
Gabriel is excited to be introduced to For Good by Fog, a crowd-funded comeback from Minneapolis musician Andrew Broder.
Feb 12, 2021•23 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Drummers Adam Betts & Seb Rochford
Adam 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.
Feb 05, 2021•28 min
Rob Deering & outsider soul music
Rob 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.
Feb 05, 2021•26 min
Nish Kumar & Kevin Abstract's American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
Nish 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.
Jan 29, 2021•29 min
Sindhu Vee & conceptual club bangers
Sindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval, a 2016 solo project by glitch pioneer Markus Popp.
Jan 22, 2021•25 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Akenya, Cam O'Bi and Phoelix on Noname'sTelefone
Three of Noname's key collaborators from the Chicago scene share their memories of helping to create her debut mixtape.
Jan 15, 2021•24 min
Kemah Bob & Noname's Telefone
Kemah is a huge fan of this beautiful debut mixtape, written and recorded by rapper Noname and collaborators in LA and Chicago.
Jan 15, 2021•27 min
Felicity Ward & nostalgic American indie
Felicity 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.
Jan 08, 2021•26 min
Nathaniel Metcalfe & live improvised blues
Nathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues, an album recorded by Mike Cooper live in Geneva.
Jan 01, 2021•23 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby & Ed Gamble
A 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.
Dec 25, 2020•47 min
Mae Martin & Jeff Rosenstock's Worry
Mae 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.
Dec 25, 2020•26 min
Jamali Maddix & screamcore rap
James is attempting to win Jamali's support for 2016 with the album SUI // RAP by youngster jiji, the brainchild of Seattle rapper James Campbell.
Dec 18, 2020•23 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Foonyap
Foonyap talks to James about the mental and emotional struggles that inspired her beautiful album Palimpsest.
Dec 11, 2020•20 min
Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk
Desiree is in two minds about Palimpsest by the classically trained Canadian musician Foonyap.
Dec 11, 2020•27 min
Phil Wang & electronic Mexican folk
Phil 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.
Dec 04, 2020•24 min
Evelyn Mok & a technophobic metal nightmare
Evelyn is back and introduced to Boy Man Machine by Drose, an album that fuses experimental metal with sounds recorded in a factory.
Nov 27, 2020•24 min
Romesh Ranganathan & head-scrambling math rap
Romesh 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.
Nov 20, 2020•26 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Cyril Yeterian from Bongo Joe
James 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.
Nov 13, 2020•18 min
Sarah Keyworth & a mysterious choral album
Sarah 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.
Nov 13, 2020•24 min
Joe Sutherland & Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial
James 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.
Nov 06, 2020•22 min
Sophie Duker & a raw, genre-hopping record
Sophie 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.
Oct 30, 2020•20 min
Rachel Parris & blissful ambient folk
Rachel is drawn to the folk side of Hands In Our Names, an album recorded by Karima Walker in the desert of New Mexico.
Oct 23, 2020•29 min
Kwame Asante & noise rock
Kwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by noise rock supergroup Doomsday Student.
Oct 16, 2020•29 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Netty Rhodes & the SWeet Recorder Consort
James attempts to learn Morning Thought by Surface To Air Missive from scratch with recorder teacher Netty Rhodes and the SWeet Recorder Consort.
Oct 09, 2020•13 min
Eleanor Tiernan & recorder prog folk rock
Eleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive, a solo project from the musician Taylor Ross.
Oct 09, 2020•32 min
John Kearns & teenage three piece rock
John prefers the second half of Out of Sight by the former Minneapolis rock band Falling.
Oct 02, 2020•22 min
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