Fern Brady & Emo R&B
James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
BBC
4.8 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
James Acaster talks about one of the many albums he collected from the year 2016 with one of his comedy friends. This week Fern Brady states from the outset that Half of My Love by Fauxe is not for her… oops. Even though the title comes from one of her favourite albums. Can James change her mind?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good. Hopefully it will. |
| 0:12.7 | James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. I dealt with that |
| 0:18.9 | breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could. |
| 0:23.0 | 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. |
| 0:31.0 | But it's not enough me being convinced. I also want to convince each and every single one of you, plus a guest every week. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm going to send them an album in advance. |
| 0:38.9 | They're going to come on the podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | We're going to talk about that album. |
| 0:41.9 | This week, my guest is Fern Brady, and we're talking about the Folks album, Half of My Love. |
| 0:49.1 | Folks is a Singaporean artist, an electronic music producer. |
| 0:52.9 | His name is Christopher Gerard Gross. |
| 0:55.0 | Started in 2012 and wore a mask when he performed. |
| 0:58.0 | He did that for many years for a few EPs. |
| 1:00.6 | This was his debut album in 2016 and he took the mask off for it |
| 1:04.0 | because it was a much more personal album. |
| 1:06.5 | A lot of it was reflecting on breakups he'd had, various relationships. |
| 1:10.7 | The pictures laid up my walls, gonna tear it down. |
| 1:18.9 | Gonna tear it down. |
| 1:21.0 | Also, it was quite a turbulent time for him with his mental health. |
| 1:24.4 | And so he wanted to be very open and quite earnest with this album as well i think |
| 1:29.0 | you know even though he's not necessarily singing on all the tracks there's a lot of guests |
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