UKNY for June 14

In the early weeks of the pandemic, in April 2020, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien released his solo debut album, Earth, under the moniker of EOB. Needless to say, O'Brien, who had caught Covid at a March gig in Paris, knew touring was out of the question, and his decade-long journey to the recording and release of Earth derailed. He dealt with that disappointment, but hit a more worrying crisis.

In lockdown with his family in Wales, O'Brien tumbled into a deep depression — and his emergence from that downward spiral powerfully informs O'Brien's second solo album, Blue Morpho, released under his full name in mid-May.

On tonight's "UKNY" at 7 p.m., a conversation with O'Brien about the existential relief of recording Blue Morpho, the cocoon of producer Paul Epworth's recording studio in a Crouch End church, and the friends who helped O'Brien make this album, from Shabaka Hutchings to Eska. O'Brien is also frank about his mental health and how he emerged from a place of crippling despair, uplifted by music, nature, and his family.

Also, new music from Limerick's Theatre, who've just released their debut EP, Incarnate, plus London-based The Leaf Library, Jo From School, and Alewya.

That's "UKNY," Sundays from 7-8 p.m., on 90.7FM, streaming online and in the Archives after broadcast.