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James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

Sara Barron & retro indie-pop

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

BBC

Music

4.8798 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sara Barron confesses to James that she has very questionable music taste but is left feeling very Parisian listening to Cate Le Bon’s Crab Day, an album about a fictional day.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.9

If you like adult content and strong language, good news.

0:08.6

This podcast has plenty of it.

0:10.5

With any luck.

0:13.9

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

0:19.6

I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I

0:23.1

possibly could. As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced

0:29.9

it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced. I also want to

0:34.5

convince each and every single one of you plus a guest every week i'm going to send

0:39.6

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

0:43.6

this week my guest is sarah baron and we're talking about crab day by kate lebonne nice seems

0:51.3

no doubt least 15 for your money kate lebonne is a Welsh singer-songwriter.

0:59.4

She has a whole band behind her.

1:01.0

She's now based in L.A. as well, which I think for me really sums her up, like a fish out of water.

1:06.3

She kind of makes more sense when she doesn't make sense, if that makes sense.

1:09.7

So I like it when Kate La Bonn is taken out of her hometown in Wales and thrust into Sunny L.A.

1:16.1

And this album was like, I don't think a lot of artists have it when sometimes they let the pressures of

1:21.2

music or the industry just get on top of you and then just have a project that makes you just go,

1:26.6

actually, I want to reconnect with what's fun about making music and this was very much that album.

1:32.3

Wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful

1:38.3

with this album really the main rule was that if it's not fun stop stop doing it, you really connect with what's enjoyable.

1:46.8

And I think you can see that on every single song.

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