Felicity Ward & Public Speaking

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Ward struggles with Caress, Redact, the stripped-back experimental electronic album by Public Speaking that's all about violence.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	If you love strong language and adult content, good news.
0:09.9	I aim to cram as much of that into this episode as possible.
0:17.1	Hello, my name is James Acaster, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown.
0:24.1	I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.
0:28.4	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.
0:36.9	But it's not enough me being convinced.
0:38.7	I also want to convince each and every single one of you, plus a guest every week.
0:42.8	This week, my guest is Felicity Ward.
0:45.2	And in advance, I've sent her an album, and we're going to discuss it on the podcast.
0:49.8	The album this week is Caress Redact by Public Speaking.
1:06.5	Public Speaking is the project of Jason Anthony Harris.
1:10.3	He's a solo artist who comes from, or he lives in New York. He's based in New York. The music he makes is experimental electronic music. A lot of it is very stripped down on this particular album, Koresa Datt, which is an album all about different sorts of violence, how it's affected his life and how it affects the world at large.
1:29.7	And a lot of the times he wanted to illustrate that by making the music sound violent.
1:33.8	It was one of the most... Stand up again, stand up again, stand up again, stand up.
1:46.4	It was one of the most instant albums for me.
1:49.5	As soon as I heard it, I fell in love with it.
1:51.6	I've bought all of his stuff since.
1:53.4	I think he's a very, very special musician,
1:55.8	and not enough people know about him.
1:57.3	How many cracks?
2:00.3	A beautiful break a store. How many of you? know about him.
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