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This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good.

Hopefully it will.

James Acaster here.

In 2017, I had a breakdown, and 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 me being convinced. I also need to

convince each and every single one of you and a different guest every week. This week, my guest is May Martin, and I've sent her in advance, worry, by Jeff Rosenstock.

Jeff Rosenstock is a huge figure on the punk scene.

This is his second solo album.

He wrote it while he was living in Brooklyn.

It is a very significant record to me.

It's what the whole podcast has actually named after.

The final track on the album is called Perfect Sound Whatever.

It's all because of that song because of how much I think it encapsulates the fact that

perfect isn't a thing and that it doesn't exist and you can keep trying and it takes forever

to get something perfect because it's not real.

And for me that really did take a lot of pressure off of life in general.

I felt that before I listened to songs like this, I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to get everything perfect.

And songs like that made me drop that.

And anyway, I don't want to give the book away.

It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. It doesn't care. This album is a huge album. huge anyway.

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