James Acaster's Perfect Sounds Series 1 Episodes Episode guide
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Jen Brister & experimental Majorcan folk
Jen Brister has a strong reaction to 'Folk Souvenir' by Joana Gomila.
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Jamali Maddix & screamcore rap
Jamali is impressed with SUI // RAP by youngster jiji.
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Jamali Maddix & satanic spirituals
Jamali gets out of his comfort zone with a satanic-spirituals-black-metal fusion album.
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Jack Rooke & twisted-pop
Jack meets the NHS nurse Law Holt's cheating diva alter ego in her twisted pop album.
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Jack Rooke & thoughtful inventive indie
Jack is over the moon to be introduced to Thoughts Lined Up by Martin Creed.
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Guz Khan & generational jazz rap
Guz is up for giving the collaborative self-titled project by S茅l茅b茅yone another chance.
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Guz Khan & Ethiopian Crunch
Guz is on board with this hybrid of hard rock and Ethiopian music.
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Gabriel Ebulue & personal beat-fired balladry
Gabriel is excited to be introduced to For Good by Fog.
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Gabriel Ebulue & Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Skeleton Tree
Gabriel shares his love for this ominous and emotional album steeped in personal tragedy.
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Felicity Ward & Public Speaking
Felicity struggles with the violence in this experimental electronic album.
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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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Evelyn Mok & Malian hip-hop
Evelyn discovers the Malian hip-hop artist named after his own studio.
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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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Eleanor Tiernan & Run The Jewels 3
Eleanor wants what hip-hop duo Run The Jewels have.
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Eleanor Tiernan & recorder prog folk rock
Eleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive.
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Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk
Desiree is in two minds about Foonyap's Palimpsest.
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Desiree Burch & Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition
Desiree discovers the Detroit rapper's Atrocity Exhibition.
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Dane Baptiste & infinite looping psych rock
Dane enjoys the frantic Nonagen Infinity by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Trim & Jamali Maddix discuss 1-800 DINOSAUR Presents
James and Jamali sit down with Trim to discuss working with James Blake.
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BONUS SOUNDS: The Tuts
The Tuts take James on a tour of their hometown Hayes.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Netty Rhodes & the SWeet Recorder Consort
James attempts to learn Morning Thought by Surface To Air Missive from scratch.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Katie Dey
First bonus episode, an interview with Katie Dey on her music, mental health and twitter.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Joana Gomila & Dr Judith R Cohen
James talks to Joana Gomila and Dr Judith R Cohen about ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby & Ed Gamble
A Christmas treat featuring an interview with Jeff Rosenstock about his album Worry.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Foonyap
Foonyap on the mental and emotional struggles that inspired her album Palimpsest.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Drummers Adam Betts & Seb Rochford
Adam and Seb bring their drum kits along to talk about Jon Bap's 'What Now?'
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BONUS SOUNDS: Damien Cluzel
James chats to the guitarist at the heart of both the uKanDanZ and Pixvae albums.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Cyril Yeterian from Bongo Joe
James explores the mystery behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle.
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BONUS SOUNDS: Akenya, Cam O'Bi and Phoelix on Noname'sTelefone
Three key collaborators share their memories of helping create Noname's debut mixtape.
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Athena Kugblenu & Japanese folk-indie-jazz fusion
Athena gets into this one of kind album that fuses Japanese folk with many genres.