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

I aim to cram as much of that into this episode as possible.

If there's not much and you're disappointed, sorry, I tried my best.

Hello, James Acaster here.

Welcome to the first bonus episode of Perfect Sounds.

For those of you who have been listening to the podcast so far, thank you very much.

And you'll know that usually on the podcast I have a guest on and I send them an album in advance from 2016, the greatest year for music

all time. I'll see if they agree with me by the end of the episode. Usually it's an album

they've never heard before. The bonus episodes are our opportunity to do more of a deep dive

into albums and explore them a bit more and approach them from a different angle. So if you haven't

listened to my interview with Sarah Keyworth where we talk about the Katie Day album Flood Network,

do you know what? You can still listen to this. It still will make sense to you,

but I'd recommend going back listening to that for a bit of context. You can have a bit more information on the album before going into this.

It is one of my favourite albums of all time. I was very excited to be able to interview Katie Day in her hometown of

Melbourne. That's why I went last year to do the comedy festival. And while I was there, the good old

BBC managed to sort me out an interview with one of my favorite musicians, Katie Day. Now,

what you're about to listen to, I should, you'll notice as soon as this podcast starts

this episode, you're going to hear, hold on a second, is that the same guy he was doing the intro?

He doesn't sound as relaxed as he did before. Correct. I was extremely nervous. I was meeting

one of my favourite musicians. I can't hammer that home enough. I was pretty awkward. Also, Katie Day

isn't as keen about talking about a music

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