UKNY for December 29
Lucy Rose (photo by Josh Shinner, PR)
The start of 2025 is just days away, but there are too many good albums and songs of 2024 to glance at via the rear view window yet.
On tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m., looking back (and forward) to more of the albums and songs that I especially loved over the past 12 months — very much a partial list at best. As a longtime fan of Camberley-born Lucy Rose, I was sad to read of her serious health struggles with severe pregnancy-related osteoporosis over the past handful of years, but the album that spun out of Rose's tough challenges of new motherhood — This Ain't the Way You Go Out — might be the British singer and songwriter's best release to date. Produced by Kwes and recorded in just two days, it's a marvel of a fifth album, released via Communion Records, and written with Rose's infant son sat on her lap.
Much to squeeze in over an hour, but will work in more favorite 2024 releases from Manchester's Antony Szmierek and Doves, Leeds' Yard Act, Essex's Underworld and a batch of Londoners: Sault, Nilüfer Yanya, Seafarers, Whitelands and Public Service Broadcasting.
All that and more on "UKNY," Sundays 11 p.m.-midnight on 90.7 FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
