UKNY for January 11

With their brilliant third album, Secret Love, out in the world as of this past Friday, the London quartet Dry Cleaning are trying some new things: collaborating with producer Cate LeBon, digging into different layers of their funky, gritty sound, and even giving the band's vocalist/lyricist Florence Shaw the confidence to sing beyond her usual sprechgesang. Secret Love is a collection of songs that's quite clear about the pain and confusion of living in a cruel, unpredictable political climate. On "UKNY" tonight at 11pm, the angular song that concludes the album with wry ambiguity.

Halifax, Yorkshire's Ellur releases her debut album, At Home in My Mind, on February 6 and she just dropped another track from it, plus Dublin's Ailbhe Reddy, whose new album, Kiss Big, arrives on January 30. In addition, the happy return of Sarah Records alums Heavenly, back with a new song, album, and label after 30 years.  

Also, Scottish singer and songwriter Theo Bleak, Hamburg's Brockhoff, Norway's Smerz, Los Angeles's GENA, and something from Ishmael Ensemble's live EP, recorded in a Bristol church.

Finally, a set for David Bowie: the tenth anniversary of his death was yesterday, January 10, and his 79th birthday anniversary (and the tenth anniversary of Blackstar) was on January 8.

That's "UKNY." Sundays 11p.m.-midnight, on 90.7FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.