James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

BBC 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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117 episodes
Updated May 27, 2022

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Aug 27, 2021 · 27 min
Toussaint Douglass & eccentric indie
Toussaint thinks James hates him after listening to Four Thing by Four Thing.
Aug 20, 2021 · 27 min
Maisie Adam & comedic post-punk
Maisie is grabbed by the one-man-band Christian Fitness and This Taco Is Not Correct.
Aug 20, 2021 · 36 min
Bonus Sounds: Andrew Falkous - Christian Fitness
James and friend David Trent chat to the man behind Christian Fitness, Andrew Falkous .
Aug 13, 2021 · 27 min
Aaron Chen & dark reggae
Aaron tries to be happy during Mournful Skank's sad and dark reggae album, Ghost Hunter.
Aug 6, 2021 · 29 min
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean & experiemental sampling hip hop
Kiri is shoved around by Coin Locker Kid's experimental hip hop album The Salmon of Doubt
Jul 30, 2021 · 25 min
Dai Henwood & the house party concept album
Dai Henwood enjoys doing his taxes to Andy Shauf's indie concept album The Party.
Jul 23, 2021 · 27 min
Isy Suttie & a drum duo
Isy Suttie is engulfed by this purely percussive self-titled album from drum duo Rattle.
Jul 23, 2021 · 32 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood
James visits Colin Greenwood to discuss Radiohead's 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.
Jul 16, 2021 · 28 min
Chloe Petts & bedroom indie pop
Chloe discovers that Frankie Cosmos' album Next Thing is her kind of music.
Jul 9, 2021 · 28 min
Ahir Shah & a blissful sound collage
Ahir finds a blissfully mellow album that he'd like to chop vegetables to.
Jul 2, 2021 · 29 min
Rosie Jones & Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool
James and Rosie sit down with Radiohead for the first time, will this win them over?
Jun 24, 2021 · 6 min
2016 is back and more perfect than before!
James is back with more albums to prove that 2016 is the greatest year for music, ever.
Apr 30, 2021 · 29 min
Eleanor Tiernan & Run The Jewels 3
Eleanor wants what hip-hop duo Run The Jewels have.
Apr 16, 2021 · 26 min
John Kearns & celebratory North African sampled vinyl
John wants to dance to Tunisian producer and DJ Ghoula's celebratory album Hlib El Ghoula
Apr 9, 2021 · 28 min
Rachel Parris & an orchestral art-rock collaboration
Classically trained Rachel dissects this experimental classical album Balter/Saunier.
Apr 2, 2021 · 21 min
Jen Brister & experimental Majorcan folk
Jen Brister has a strong reaction to 'Folk Souvenir' by Joana Gomila.
Apr 1, 2021 · 23 min
BONUS SOUNDS: Joana Gomila & Dr Judith R Cohen
James talks to Joana Gomila and Dr Judith R Cohen about ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax.
Mar 26, 2021 · 26 min
Jack Rooke & thoughtful inventive indie
Jack is over the moon to be introduced to Thoughts Lined Up by Martin Creed.
Mar 19, 2021 · 27 min
Alison Spittle & extreme industrial metal
Alison is willing to persevere with End Position by Street Sects.
Mar 12, 2021 · 30 min
Dane Baptiste & infinite looping psych rock
Dane enjoys the frantic Nonagen Infinity by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.