Description: "January 2017. James Acaster wakes up hungover and heartbroken in New York. Luckily, there is one thing he can rely on for comfort: music. In true Acaster fashion, this leads him to embark on a very specific mission: to buy as much music as he can released in 2016, the year before everything went wrong ... Some albums are life-changing masterpieces, others are 'Howdilly Doodilly' by Okilly Dokilly, a metalcore album devoted to The Simpsons character Ned Flanders. But all of them play a part in the year that James gets his life back on track"--Publisher's description.
Review Quotes: If, as the pundits say, comedy is like jazz then I'm against it. I didn't drill power chords and feedback techniques just to go fannying about looking for the melody. James Acaster, though, is a bit of an outlier. He's a music wonk with a sense of the ridiculous and his controversial theory that 2016 was the greatest year for music ever is off by a mere five decades. Interesting take, though.--David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap