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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 in 2016 as I possibly could as a result I now own over 600 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 convinced. I also want to convince each and every single

one of you, plus a guest every single week. I'm going to send them an album in advance. They're going to

come on the podcast, we'll talk about that album. This week, my guest is Alison Spittle. And we're

talking about the album, Rook to TN34, by Mplex. Current location, quality.

Static afternoon.

Slag keeps no angels.

C-Monkey, not responding.

Russell!

Russell!

Mplex are a duo, consistent of Nick Edwards and Ian Hicks.

They go by the aliases, Echoplex and Baron Mordant.

Echoplex is all the instrumentals on this album.

Very weird anxiety-inducing instrumentals, electronics.

And Baron Morden does all the lyrics, which is very spoken word.

It's the most spoken word album that we feature on the

podcast. More down music, mildly embittered since the turn of the century. I don't know why it

speaks to me way more than any other spoken word album. I think it's the humor in his lyrics. I think

it's how graphic they can be sometimes, sometimes very crude. This is, this is, we're probably going to get into it, though it's quite a lot on this episode.

I know we always have a little bit of a bad language warning at the top of the episodes,

and sometimes there's never even any swearing in them.

I'm pretty sure that if we talk about the lyrics on this album,

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