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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, and 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 to be convinced.

I also want to convince each and every single one of you, and a guest every week.

I'm going to send them an album in advance, they'll come in or chat about that album.

This week, my guest is Rob Deering,

and the album in question is What Now?

By John Bapp.

John Bap is a Buffalo-based musician, or at least he was based in Buffalo when this album came out.

He experiments with free jazz and also even, it could be argued elements-altering record for me. This album is a life-altering record for me. I'm not underselling that at all.

This album completely changed my taste of music. It opened up a whole other door

to a whole world of different drum beats and guitar sounds, vocal styles. As soon as I heard

this album and fell in love with her, I wanted to listen to as much disjointed music as possible,

but more importantly, it had to have some melody in there.

And that's what this album has.

Probably not in spades, but in spoonfuls. Wait up.

Rob Deering is my guest this week.

We've had Rob on one of our previous episodes.

We've talked about Beyond the Fleeting Gales by Crying. He loved that album, but maybe I'm putting words in

his mouth, but he really liked it. It was extremely enthusiastic about it, and he even admitted

that 2016 was the greatest year for the music of all time.

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