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Lovely.

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 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 for me being convinced.

I also 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

that come on the podcast,

and we're going to talk about that album.

This week, my guest is Dane Baptiste,

and I've sent him Nonogon Infinity

by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a psych-rock experimental band from Melbourne, Australia.

They are ridiculously prolific. I've lost counting

the amount of albums they've recorded and released now, but in like a short space of time,

like seven years, they've done something like 14 albums. I don't know. In 2017, they

release five. So who's counting right now? Hopefully they are.

They're still on-piece band.

Nonagon Infinity is their eighth studio album and it plays on an infinite loop.

I think it's fair to say this is a real breakthrough project for them.

They've really taken advantage of MP3s and the whole online format that

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