James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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  • A message from Ed Gamble

    With James on the latest series of The Celebrity Traitors, Ed Gamble has a message for Perfect Sounds listeners.

    To listen to every episode of The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked, search for ‘Traitors Uncloaked’ only on BBC Sounds.

    1 min
  • Aparna Nancherla & Freetown Sound

    Freetown Sound by Blood Orange is such an "immaculate" album that James worries he might burst into tears just talking about it.

    Here's hoping Aparna feels the same, otherwise trouble could be afoot.

    29 min
  • Jen Ives & An Escape Into Space

    Splendor & Misery is a sci-fi concept album by experimental rap trio Clipping.

    Lyrics and soundscapes combine to tell an Afrofuturist story of an escape from oppression into the void of space. Jen Ives prepares to be transported.

    27 min
  • Stuart Laws & ScHoolboy Q

    James confesses to being in love with ScHoolboy Q's Blank Face LP.

    With a Gangsta rap core but with psychedelic overtones and great production, is there enough to seduce Stuart Laws too?

    30 min
  • Toussaint Douglass & The Life Of Pablo

    The ever-polarising Kanye West can be controversial at times but James can't help but like the music. After all, his 2016 album The Life of Pablo has a vein of weirdness running through it that is right up James' street. However, is it a path Toussaint Douglass is willing to tread?

    29 min
  • Fern Brady & The Punk Beyoncé

    Black Terry Cat by Xenia Rubinos is a magical album drawing on many influences and described by the artist herself as "a punk Beyoncé".

    However, is it enough to impress one of Scotland's finest, Fern Brady?

    26 min
  • Sadia Azmat & Black Girl Blues

    Fetish Bones by Moor Mother delivers a powerful message via a sonically abrasive backdrop.

    Labelled by the artist herself as Black Girl Blues, Project Housing Bop or Slaveship Punk, it's an album that demands the listener's full attention.

    However, was it enough to hold Sadia Asmat's attention?

    24 min
  • Sara Barron & Emily's D+Evolution

    Emily's D+Evolution, a brilliant Jazz-Rock-Funk fusion album by Grammy Award winning Esperanza Spalding, is usually the last thing Sara Barron would listen to.

    However, some finely crafted lyrics start to reel her in.

    30 min
  • Nathan Caton & an OST to Nothing

    Wes Borland you may remember as the guitarist in '90s rock/rap outfit Limp Bizkit. In 2016 he released Crystal Machete, a soundtrack to an imagined film.

    James and Nathan try to imagine what that film would look like.

    29 min

About James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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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…

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