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James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. I dealt with that breakdown

by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could. As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016, and I'm

convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced,

or if I want to convince each and every single one of you, plus a guest every week. I'm going to

send them an album in advance, they're going to come on the podcast, we're going to talk about

that album. This week, my guest is a parna nanchela, and we're going to send them an album in advance, they're going to come on the podcast, we're going to talk about that album. This week, my guest is a parna nanchela, and we're going to talk about

Free Town Sound by Blood Orange. Blood Orange is the project of Dev Hines. He was formerly known

as Lightspeed Champion. That's how a lot of you might remember him,

an English singer-songwriter. He was also in Test Icicles before that. They only did one album,

but for my generation, that was a pretty big album. A lot of people were into Test Icicles.

That was more noisy, kind of indie stuff. It's quite the journey. There's very few musicians

who you look at their journey throughout their career

and go, I can't believe they've done all three of those projects,

so different and yet all coming from the same person.

But I imagine Dev Hines could turn his hands to anything and pull it off.

He really does seem like completely accomplished in any genre of music he sets his mind to.

Freetown Sound was one of the biggest albums of 2016 I'd say.

At least it was one of the most critically acclaimed.

People really embraced this album and got extremely excited about it and with good reason.

There's so much going on all the way through, like not just musically, lyrically and melodically,

but also structurally, thematically, like he talks about a lot of political issues on it,

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