UKNY for December 15

Over the past year, the wily and caustic Lauran Hibberd has released a series of terrific singles and a debut EP, called Everything is Dogs, that all revel in the early '90s halcyon days of brisk, brute indie rock of folks like Liz Phair, Pavement, the Breeders, Sleeper, or Nirvana. There's a lot of humor and prickly self-observation laced into the Isle of Wight singer and songwriter's music and on UKNY at 11, Hibberd's latest missive.

Also, freshly-minted BBC Sound of 2020 longlister beabadoobee, Biig Piig, the return of Saint Saviour with Badly Drawn Boy, New Zealand-Amercan duo Hamerkop, brand new Spacebomb recruit Nadia Reid,  Jeremy Warmsley, and the indefatigable Underworld — last Saturday, December 7, the pair magically transformed London's 11,000-strong Wembley Arena into a euphoric rave, undoubtedly a huge highlight of their nearly 40-year career, and I was lucky enough to be there.

That's UKNY, 11 p.m.-midnight on Sunday nights, also available after broadcast in the Weekend Archives.

Songs played:

1. Bombay Bicycle Club, “Everything Else Has Gone Wrong,” Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
2. (NZ-Baltimore, MD) Hamerkop, “We Can Wing,” Remote
3. Underworld, “Listen to Their No,” Drift Series 1 (box set)
4. Lauran Hibberd, “Sweat Patch,” single
5. beabadoobee, “Are You Sure,” Space Cadet EP
6. Rachael Dadd, “Super Moon Machine,” FLUX
7. (Port Chalmers, NZ) Nadia Reid, “Best Thing,” Out of My Province
8. Biig Piig, “Roses and Gold,” No Place for Patience, Vol 3
9. Saint Saviour and Badly Drawn Boy, “The Place I Want to Be,” single
10. Tracey Thorn, “Under the Sky (Kate Bush cover),” single
11. Plaid, “Dust,” Polymer
12. Jeremy Warmsley, “December,” A Year
13. (Christchurch, NZ) Yumi Zouma, “December,” Willowbank
14. Bill Laurance, “December in New York,” Live at Union Chapel