UKNY for December 6

Based in Berlin, musician and producer Albertine Sarges has collaborated with Holly Herndon and been part of the Italian synth-wave duo Itaca, but her forthcoming solo album, The Sticky Fingers, is a forthright and often witty leap into the conversation of gender identity and feminist theory. On "UKNY" at 11 tonight, ahead of the album's release on Moshi Moshi on January 29, a return to one of Albertine's three singles released so far, the triumphant "Free Today," which has a bittersweet resonance given our varying degrees of isolation in this pandemic.

Also planned for the hour: the Devon and Yorkshire band Pale Blue Eyes, the return of Sigur Rós, a Cocteau Twins-reminiscent waltz from Brighton's Lost Horizons, Perth-based Carla Geneve, Londoner and Mercury Prize nominee Loyle Carner, and a beautiful debut single from la loye, who is Dutch singer and songwriter Lieke Heusinkveld.

Those British and international artists and more on "UKNY," Sundays 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7, streaming online and available after broadcast in the Weekend Archives.

Songs played:

1. The Go! Team, “Look Outside (A New Year’s Coming),” Lost Christmas
2. Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai, “Every Beat That Passed,” In Quiet Moments
3. Aztec Camera, “Walk out to Winter,” (Tony Mansfield 7-inch version), High Land, Hard Rain (Rarities)
4. (Berlin, DE) Albertine Sarges, “Free Today,” The Sticky Fingers
5. Nadine Shah, “Trad,” Kitchen Sink
6. Pale Blue Eyes, “Motionless,” single
7. Loyle Carner, “Yesterday,” single
8. (Amsterdam, NL) Nana Adjoa, “Every Song,” Big Dreaming Ants
9. (Reykjavík, IS) Sigur Rós, “Dvergmrál,” Odin’s Raven Magic
10. (The Hague, NL) la loye, “i’m still asleep,” single
11. (Perth, AU) Carla Geneve, “The Right Reasons,” single
12. Islet, “Geese (Gwenno remix),” single