UKNY for April 17
Carla Geneve (photo by Duncan Wright, PR)
Australian singer and songwriter Carla Geneve, 23, wrote most of the songs on her 2022 debut album, Learn To Like It, when she was just 18 years old. The pandemic — and supply shortages — delayed the release of her first album until this year. However, a slow drip of singles from the album and an acclaimed 2019 EP — which led to a raft of Western Australian music awards — has quickly elevated the Perth-based Geneve's profile. An anguished tenderness and grit tumble from her songs and vocally, there's a hint of Lucinda Williams or even Bonnie Raitt lurking in her punkish Americana twang. On "UKNY" at 11 p.m., I'll get to another one of Geneve's songs from her auspicious debut.
In addition, new releasees from London's ribald and krautrock-loving Warmduscher, Manchester's adventurous Floating Points, the Yorkshire-bred bite of Working Men's Club, plus Parisian sisters Ibeyi connect with Jorja Smith. A couple of Americans too: shoegazy Chicago trio Horsegirl and the devastatingly direct Nina Nastasia, who returns with her first album in 12 years, Riderless Horse, a beautiful and bruised album of grief and renewal.
That's "UKNY," Sunday nights from 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online and found in the Weekend Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Working Men’s Club, “Widow,” Fear Fear
2. Warmduscher, “Eight Minute Machines,” At the Hotspot
3. (Chicago, US) Horsegirl, “World of Pots and Pans,” Versions of Modern Performance
4. (Ghent, BE) Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, “Mantra,” Topical Dancer
5. (Kinshasa, DRC-Montréal, CA) Pierre Kwenders, “Kilimanjaro,” José Louis and the Paradox of Love
6. Let’s Eat Grandma, “Levitation,” Two Ribbons
7. Floating Points, “Grammar,” single
8. Porij, “Figure Skating,” single
9. Art School Girlfriend, “Eyes on You (Porij remix),” single
10. Solar Eyes, “Dreaming of the Moon,” Dreaming of the Moon EP
11. (Paris, FR) Ibeyi feat. Jorja Smith, “Lavender & Red Roses,” Spell 31
12. (Perth, AU) Carla Geneve, “Brighter Than Blue,” Learn to Like It
13. (NY-VT, US) Nina Nastasia, “Just Stay in Bed,” Riderless Horse
14. Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra, “Perhaps It Made Us Happy for a Minute, “ The Unfolding
