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Hopefully it will.

Hello, my name is James Acaster 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 me being 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, then they come in and tell me what

they think of that album. And hopefully by the end of the episode, they'll admit that 2016 is

indeed the greatest year for music of all time, officially. This week, my guest is Nish Kumar,

and the album we're talking about is American Boyfriend, A Suburban Love Story by Kevin Abstract.

Kevin Abstract is a member, kind of like the founding member of the boy band, and they've

reclaiming that term, Brockhampton.

Brockhampton, I've got quite a loyal, fierce fan base. If you haven't heard them, you should really check them out.

They really do a great job of combining rap music with pop music as the perfect blend.

And they blew up in 2017, really. That's when they got big Kevin Abstrap leased in an album in 2016 not to him at that point and really on to him at that point. And I think this album

deserved a lot more attention. It's a concept album. It tells the story of him growing up in Texas

as a young gay black man with parents who are homophobic and a boyfriend who's racist and never

really feeling like he belongs in any one camp. And he has a lot of revelations as the album progresses, and it ends in a place of acceptance

on a lot of different levels.

Anyway, I won't spoil it for you, me initially to talk about it a lot.

My best friend's racist, my mother's homophobic.

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