Episodes
| Series | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Chen And Dark Reggae | 20211004 | Aaron tries to be happy during Mournful Skank's sad and dark reggae album, Ghost Hunter. | ||
| Ahir Shah And A Blissful Sound Collage | 20210920 | Ahir Shah discovers 'Good Will Come to You' from artist Jean-Sebastian Audet's project Un Blonde. A blissfully mellow sound collage that incorporates field recordings, vocal harmonies and acoustic guitars, it was released on tape cassette in 2016. And for Ahir it's the perfect music to chop vegetables to. Ahir finds a blissfully mellow album that he'd like to chop vegetables to. | ||
| Alison Spittle And Dark Spoken Word | 20201026 | 20201102 (6M) | Alison has a strong reaction to Rook to TN34, a spoken word album by the duo eMMplekz. | |
| Alison Spittle And Extreme Industrial Metal | 20210524 | Alison is willing to persevere with the album End Position by Texan duo Street Sects. | ||
| Andrew Falkous, Christian Fitness | 20211011 | James and friend David Trent chat to the man behind Christian Fitness, Andrew Falkous. | ||
| Athena Kugblenu And Frank Ocean's Blonde | 20210426 | 20210503 (6M) | As a fan of his debut mixtape, Athena is underwhelmed by Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde. | |
| Athena Kugblenu And Japanese Folk-indie-jazz Fusion | 20201005 | Athena gets into this one of a kind album that fuses Japanese folk with many genres. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Akenya, Cam O'bi And Phoelix On Noname'stelefone | 20210405 | Noname's key collaborators share their memories of helping to create her debut mixtape. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Cyril Yeterian From Bongo Joe | 20201130 | James explores the mystery behind Song I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Damien Cluzel | 20201019 | James chats to the guitarist at the heart of two of his favourite 2016 albums. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Drummers Adam Betts And Seb Rochford | 20210419 | 20210426 (6M) | Adam and Seb bring their drum kits along to discuss the drumming on Jon Bap's 'What Now? | |
| Bonus Sounds: Foonyap | 20201221 | Foonyap talks to James about the struggles that inspired her beautiful album Palimpsest. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Joana Gomila And Dr Judith R Cohen | 20210531 | James talks to Joana Gomila and Dr Judith R Cohen about Spanish folk recordings. | ||
| Bonus Sounds: Kojey Radical | 20200814 | 20200809 (6M) 20210208 (6M) | A bonus conversation with Kojey Radical recorded live at the 6Music Festival. | |
| Bonus Sounds: Kojey Radical | 20201005 | 20200928 (6M) | A bonus conversation with British rapper and spoken word artist Kojey Radical. | |
| Bonus Sounds: The Tuts | 20210517 | Hayes-based three-piece The Tuts take James on a tour of their hometown. | ||
| Charlie George And Kendrick Lamar's Untitled Unmastered | 20211018 | Charlie is pushed out of her dad-rock habits by one of the world's most acclaimed rappers. | ||
| Chloe Petts And Bedroom Indie Pop | 20210920 | Chloe Petts discovers that Frankie Cosmos is exactly her kind of DIY bedroom indie pop. | ||
| Dai Henwood And The House Party Concept Album | 20210927 | Dai Henwood enjoys doing his taxes to Andy Shauf's indie concept album The Party. | ||
| Dane Baptiste And Infinite Looping Psych Rock | 20210510 | Dane enjoys the frantic Nonagen Infinity by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. | ||
| Dane Baptiste And Kojey Radical's 23winters | 20200814 | 20200809 (6M) 20210208 (6M) | Hip-hop fan Dane discovers the masterful EP spanning rap, spoken word, and Kojey's dad. | |
| Dane Baptiste And Kojey Radical's 23winters | 20200921 | 20200928 (6M) | Hip-hop fan Dane discovers Kojey Radical's masterful 23Winters for the first time. | |
| Desiree Burch And Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition | 20200810 | Desiree discovers Detroit rapper Danny Brown's album Atrocity Exhibition. | ||
| Desiree Burch And Intricate Fragile Folk | 20201221 | Desiree is in two minds about Palimpsest by classically trained Canadian musician Foonyap. | ||
| Eleanor Tiernan And Recorder Prog Folk Rock | 20201102 | 20201109 (6M) | Eleanor is challenged by the album A V by Surface To Air Missive, by musician Taylor Ross. | |
| Eleanor Tiernan And Run The Jewels 3 | 20210621 | 20210614 (6M) | Eleanor Tiernan is drawn in by hip-hop duo Run The Jewel's acclaimed epic third album. | |
| Evelyn Mok And A Technophobic Metal Nightmare | 20201207 | 20201214 (6M) | Evelyn is back and introduced to Boy Man Machine by Drose. | |
| Evelyn Mok And Malian Hip-hop | 20200817 | Evelyn discovers the Malian hip-hop artist Luka Productions and his 2016 album Mali Kady. | ||
| Felicity Ward And Nostalgic American Indie | 20210111 | Felicity is super in to Not Good At Spending Time Alone A.K.A. Cleanliness by Market. | ||
| Felicity Ward And Public Speaking | 20200831 | Felicity struggles with Caress, Redact, Public Speaking's album that's all about violence. | ||
| Gabriel Ebulue And Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' Skeleton Tree | 20200921 | 20201005 (6M) | Gabriel Ebulue shares his love for Skeleton Tree, the emotional album by Nick Cave. | |
| Gabriel Ebulue And Personal Beat-fired Balladry | 20210426 | 20210503 (6M) | Gabriel is excited to be introduced to For Good by Fog from musician Andrew Broder. | |
| Guz Khan And Ethiopian Crunch | 20201019 | Guz is on board for a hybrid of hard rock and Ethiopian music on the album Awo by uKanDanZ | ||
| Guz Khan And Generational Jazz Rap | 20210510 | Guz is up for giving the self-titled project by Selebeyone another chance. | ||
| Harriet Kemsley And Krip Hop | 20211025 | Harriet Kemsley warms to Wheelchair Sports Camp's avant-garde rap album No Big Deal. | ||
| Isy Suttie And A Drum Duo | 20210927 | Multi-instrumentalist and comedian Isy Suttie is engulfed by the self-titled album Rattle. | ||
| Jack Rooke And Thoughtful Inventive Indie | 20210524 | Jack is over the moon to be introduced to 24 tracks of Thoughts Lined Up by Martin Creed | ||
| Jack Rooke And Twisted-pop | 20201012 | Jack Rooke meets NHS nurse Law Holt's diva alter ego. | ||
| Jamali Maddix And Satanic Spirituals | 20200807 | 20200806 (6M) 20210125 (6M) | Jamali Maddix gets out of his comfort zone with a black metal fusion album | |
| Jamali Maddix And Youngster Jiji, Sui, Rap | 20201228 | James is attempting to win Jamali's support for 2016 with the album SUI // RAP by jiji. | ||
| James' Dad, Johnnie Frierson, Have You Been Good To Yourself | 20211101 | James talks to his dad about the Johnnie Frierson album Have You Been Good To Yourself. | ||
| Jayde Adams And Self-penned Gospel | 20211101 | Jayde reminisces life through Johnnie Frierson's Have You Been Good To Yourself. | ||
| Jeff Rosenstock, Matthew Crosby And Ed Gamble | 20210104 | A Christmas treat for you featuring James, Matthew and Ed on seeing Jeff Rosenstock live. | ||
| Jen Brister And Experimental Majorcan Folk | 20210531 | Jen Brister has a strong reaction to 'Folk Souvenir', an album by Joana Gomila. | ||
| Jen Brister And Laura Mvula's The Dreaming Room | 20200807 | 20210201 (6M) | Jen & James discuss why the album The Dreaming Room got Laura Mvula dropped from her label | |
| Joe Sutherland And Car Seat Headrest's Teens Of Denial | 20201123 | James has selected one of the biggest indie albums of the year for Joe. | ||
| Joe Sutherland And Grindcore | 20200810 | 20210201 (6M) | Joe takes a metaphorical HIIT class with the grindcore album Discordia by Bologna Violenta | |
| John Kearns And Celebratory North African Sampled Vinyl | 20210607 | John Kearns wants to dance to Tunisian producer and DJ Ghoula's album, Hlib El Ghoula. | ||
| John Kearns And Teenage Three Piece Rock | 20201026 | 20201102 (6M) | John prefers the second half of Out of Sight by the former Minneapolis rock band, Falling. | |
| Katie Dey | 20200824 | Interview in Melbourne with artist Katie Dey on identity, the internet and mental health. | ||
| Kemah Bob And Colombian Crunch | 20201012 | Kemah Bob marvels at this self-titled album from the band Pixvae. | ||
| Kemah Bob And Noname's Telefone | 20210405 | Kemah is a fan of this debut mixtape written and recorded by rapper Noname & collaborators | ||
| Kiri Pritchard-mclean And Experimental Sampling Hip Hop | 20211004 | Kiri is shoved around by Coin Locker Kid's 9 experimental album The Salmon of Doubt. | ||
| Kwame Asante And Noise Rock | 20201109 | 20201116 (6M) | Kwame puts in the work for A Self-Help Tragedy by noise rock supergroup Doomsday Student. | |
| Mae Martin And A Drone Folk Crossover | 20200914 | Mae Martin gets dark and moody to the drone folk crossover album Salt, by Katie Kim. | ||
| Mae Martin And Jeff Rosenstock, Worry | 20210104 | Mae Martin is thrilled by the album from which the podcast takes its name. | ||
| Maisie Adam And Comedic Post-punk | 20211011 | Maisie is grabbed by the one-man band Christian Fitness and This Taco Is Not Correct. | ||
| Nathaniel Metcalfe And David Bowie's Blackstar | 20200907 | Bowie fan Nathaniel revisits his final album, released just two days before his death. | ||
| Nathaniel Metcalfe And Live Improvised Blues | 20210111 | Nathaniel would like to dig New Guitar Old Hat Knew Blues, recorded by Mike Cooper | ||
| Nish Kumar And Bon Iver's 22, A Million | 20200824 | 20200831 (6M) | Bon Iver and folk music fan Nish listens for the first time to their album 22, A Million. | |
| Nish Kumar And Kevin Abstract's American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story | 20210118 | 20210419 (6M) | Nish is blown away by this concept album from Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract. | |
| Phil Wang And Electronic Mexican Folk | 20201228 | Phil absolutely loves Me Demand\u00f3 DEMOS, recorded by San Cha. | ||
| Phil Wang And Eurosceptic Hip-hop | 20200805 | 20200804 (6M) 20210118 (6M) | Phil Wang gets to grips with a Eurosceptic experimental hip-hop album and tacos. | |
| Rachel Parris And An Orchestral Art-rock Collaboration | 20210607 | Classically trained Rachel Parris dissects the one-off album Balter/Saunier | ||
| Rachel Parris And Blissful Ambient Folk | 20201109 | 20201116 (6M) | Rachel is drawn to the folk side of Hands In Our Names, an album by Karima Walker. | |
| Radiohead's Colin Greenwood | 20210913 | James visits Colin Greenwood at home to discuss making 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool. | ||
| Rhys Nicholson And Gothic Americana | 20211025 | Rhys enjoys a negroni to Marisa Nadler's dreamy gothic folk album. | ||
| Rob Deering And 80s Stadium-rock-pop | 20200817 | Rob learns to love Beyond the Fleeting Gales by Crying. | ||
| Rob Deering And Outsider Soul Music | 20210419 | 20210426 (6M) | Rob Deering is up for the challenge of Jon Bap's 'What Now? | |
| Romesh Ranganathan And Beyonce's Lemonade | 20200804 | 20200803 (6M) 20210118 (6M) | Romesh Ranganathan discovers the album that changed James' mind about pop. | |
| Romesh Ranganathan And Head-scrambling Math Rap | 20201207 | 20201214 (6M) | Romesh is delighted to discover Badd Timing by The Sooper Swag Project. | |
| Rosie Jones And Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool | 20210118 | 20210913 (6M) | James and Rosie have always felt intimidated about getting into Radiohead's back catalogue | |
| Sara Barron And Retro Indie-pop | 20200928 | 20211108 (6M) | Sara feels very Parisian listening to Cate Le Bon's Crab Day. | |
| Sarah Keyworth And A Mysterious Choral Album | 20201130 | Sarah needs convincing about the story behind Songs I-V by Rocks & Waves Song Circle. | ||
| Sarah Keyworth And Bedroom Indie-pop | 20200824 | Sarah learns about the hidden depths of Katie Dey's intriguing album, Flood Network. | ||
| Sindhu Vee And Conceptual Club Bangers | 20210412 | 20210419 (6M) 20210614 (6M) | Sindhu is not judging anyone who wants to listen to Popp by Oval by Markus Popp. | |
| Sindhu Vee And Death Grip's Bottomless Pit | 20200803 | 20200907 (6M) | Sindhu Vee learns to really like the album Bottomless Pit from hip hop trio Death Grips. | |
| Sophie Duker And A Raw, Genre-hopping Record | 20201123 | Sophie is back! James goes all in with the crowd-funded debut album Kiid from Mal Devisa. | ||
| Sophie Duker And Samba-punk | 20200806 | 20200805 (6M) 20210125 (6M) | Sophie Duker shocks James with a secret as they discuss a samba-punk fusion album. | |
| Suzi Ruffell And The One Women Orchestra | 20200914 | Suzi is dazzled by the album Conarium from Latvian musician Elizabete Bal\u010dus | ||
| Suzi Ruffell And The Tut's Update Your Brain | 20210517 | Suzi adores the melodic feminist anthems on this debut punk album from The Tuts. | ||
| Thanyia Moore And Rihanna's Anti | 20200928 | 20211108 (6M) | Thanyia Moore goes on a rollercoaster journey with Rihanna's most personal album yet, ANTI | |
| Toussaint Douglass And Eccentric Indie | 20211018 | Toussaint thinks James hates him after listening to Four Thing by Four Thing. | ||
| 02 | Ahir Shah And Baroque Classic Pop | 20211217 | 20220916 (BBC7) | James and Ahir discuss an album inspired by classic art, sculpture and a year in Rome. |
| 02 | Aparna Nancherla And A Rich, Heavy Ethereal Blanket | 20211126 | 20220826 (BBC7) | James introduces Aparna to the cinematic sound of Mirror Breathing by Shield Patterns. |
| 02 | Aparna Nancherla And Freetown Sound | 20220520 | 20230127 (BBC7) | Blood Orange's 2016 album means so much to James, he worries he might burst into tears. |
| 02 | Charlie George, Vampires And Periods | 20220304 | 20221118 (BBC7) | Will Jenny Hval's 2016 album, on the theme of blood, be to Charlie George's taste? |
| 02 | Chloe Petts On The Quest | 20220107 | 20220923 (BBC7) | Acaster, Petts, A Tribe Called Quest, 2016.....Nuff said! |
| 02 | Dai Henwood And Pop Royalty | 20220121 | 20221007 (BBC7) | Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion: Side B is 110% pure pop. Too sweet for Dai Henwood maybe? |
| 02 | Fatiha El-ghorri And Cohen's Final Bow | 20220225 | 20221111 (BBC7) | Fatiha and James discuss Leonard Cohen's last album You Want It Darker. |
| 02 | Fatiha El-ghorri Is In Heavn | 20220527 | 20230203 (BBC7) | Heavn by Jamila Woods fuses R&B, Jazz and various other genres including classic indie. |
| 02 | Fern Brady And Emo R&b | 20211029 | 20220729 (BBC7) | Fern states from the outset that Half of My Love by Fauxe is not for her\u2026 oops. |
| 02 | Fern Brady And The Punk Beyonce\u0301 | 20220422 | 20230106 (BBC7) | Black Terry Cat by Xenia Rubinos is a magical album drawing on many influences. |
| 02 | Harriet Kemsley And 'absolute Chaos!' | 20211119 | 20220819 (BBC7) | Will Harriet warm to experimental album Hello New York by Maher Shalal Hash Baz? |
| 02 | Isy Suttie And International Prog Folk | 20220114 | 20220930 (BBC7) | Will Isy Suttie be won over by Leonore Boulanger's atmospheric album Feigen Feigen? |
| 02 | Jayde Adams And Hard Pop Opera | 20220318 | 20221202 (BBC7) | Rien by Perrine en Morceaux has a big sound. But is it too big for Jayde Adams to handle? |
| 02 | Jen Ives And A Journey Into Darkness | 20220204 | 20221021 (BBC7) | Jen embarks on an emotional journey with The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time. |
| 02 | Jen Ives And An Escape Into Space | 20220513 | 20230120 (BBC7) | James and Jen discuss Splendor & Misery. A sci-fi, concept album by Clipping. |
| 02 | Kiri Pritchard-mclean And Portuguese Fusion Pop Jazz | 20220128 | 20221014 (BBC7) | Bruno Pernadas's 2016 album brings some summer warmth to Kiri Pritchard-McLean. |
| 02 | Maisie Adam And Who-pa-zoo-tic Sounds | 20211105 | 20220805 (BBC7) | James and Maisie discuss Hartley C White's album Something Better. |
| 02 | Nathan Caton And An Ost To Nothing | 20220401 | 20221216 (BBC7) | James and Nathan try to visualise Wes Borland's imaginary film, Crystal Machete. |
| 02 | Nathan Caton And Old-school Hip Hop | 20211015 | 20220715 (BBC7) | Nathan Caton chats to James about Westside Gunn's modern retro hip hop album, Flygod. |
| 02 | Rhys Nicholson And That '70s Funk Thang | 20220311 | 20221125 (BBC7) | Awaken My Love by Childish Gambino gets Rhys Nicholson Horny... but not for sex. |
| 02 | Rosie Jones And Isolation Indie Rap | 20211210 | 20221028 (BBC7) | Will Rosie be charmed by The Impossible Kid by Aesop Rock? James has his fingers crossed. |
| 02 | Sadia Azmat And Black Girl Blues | 20220415 | 20221230 (BBC7) | James and Sadia discuss Fetish Bones by Moor Mother. |
| 02 | Sadia Azmat And Cheltenham Trip Hop | 20211022 | 20220722 (BBC7) | James and Sadia discuss the 2016 album One Tusk by Moth Equals. |
| 02 | Sara Barron And Emily's D+evolution | 20220408 | 20221223 (BBC7) | James presents Sara Barron with Esperanza Spalding's Jazz-Rock-Funk fusion album. |
| 02 | Sikisa Bostwick-barnes And Bollywave | 20220218 | 20221104 (BBC7) | Ami Dang's Uni Sun is an album inspired by ancient scriptures and modern dance. |
| 02 | Sikisa Takes A Seat At The Table | 20211203 | 20220902 (BBC7) | Sikisa thought R'n'B was dead... Then came Solange's 2016 album, A Seat At The Table. |
| 02 | Stuart Laws And Angela Sawyer | 20211112 | 20220812 (BBC7) | Stuart Laws thinks he's being pranked whilst listening to Angela Sawyer. |
| 02 | Stuart Laws And Schoolboy Q | 20220506 | 20230113 (BBC7) | James confesses to being in love with ScHoolboy Q's Blank Face LP. |
| 02 | Thanyia Moore, Illusion And Destruction | 20220325 | 20221209 (BBC7) | James and Thanyia discuss Mahoroboshiya by Japanese folk singer Ichiko Aoba. |