UKNY for January 16

Last year, Galway's NewDad released one of my favorite EPs of that long year, Waves, which included the exhilarating beauty of a song, "Slowly." The quartet's second EP, Banshee, is released on February 9 and tonight on "UKNY" at 11 p.m., a preview of that new collection from a very exciting young band.

A double dose of new Devon-bred music from both Pale Blue Eyes and Metronomy, plus London's Ezra Collective returns with their first new release in about a year. Kae Tempest also has a fourth solo album brewing, called The Line is a Curve, released April 18. Adventurous, London-based composer Hinako Omori (who also toured with Ed O'Brien in early 2020) and the spiky, audacious trio Pozi are in the mix too.

That's "UKNY," traveling Britain and the world every Sunday night from 11p.m.-midnight, on 90.7, streaming online, and in the Weekend Archives after broadcast.

Songs played:

1. Pale Blue Eyes, “TV Flicker,” single
2. (Galway, IE) NewDad, “Say It,” Banshee EP
3. (Paris, FR-Coventry, UK) Ibeyi feat. Pa Salieu, “Made of Gold,” single
4. Fold, “We Must Speak (feat. words of Martin Luther King, Jr.), We Must Speak EP
5. (Calabar, NG-London, UK) Obongjayar, “Message in a Hammer,” single
6. Metronomy, “Things will be fine,” Small World
7. Jon Hopkins, “Love Flows Over Us in Prismatic Waves,” Music for Psychedelic Therapy
8. Ezra Collective feat. Novelist, “More Than a Hustler,” single
9. Kae Tempest feat. Kevin Abstract, “More Pressure,” The Line is a Curve
10. (San Diego-Los Angeles, US-London, UK) The Luxembourg Signal, “Travel Through Midnight,” Under the Bridge
11. Hinako Omori, “A Journey,” a journey …
12. Cate Le Bon, “Remembering Me,” Pompeii
13. Pozi, “Typing,” Typing EP
14. New Order, “Blue Monday (’88),” The Best of New Order