UKNY for July 20
Wolf Alice (photo by Rachel Fleminger Hudson, PR)
New releases galore on tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m. with a second single from Wolf Alice's forthcoming fourth album, The Clearing, one that finds Ellie Rowsell on a couch, contemplating life's brevity.
The Last Dinner Party announced their second album, From the Pyre, last week, arriving on October 17 — one that they promise will be darker than their debut, evidenced by their murderous first single.
Blood Orange's Dev Hynes will release his first album in six years, called Essex Honey (an actual jar of which I actually have in my kitchen cupboard). There are already three songs released from that collaborative album, including the stunning "The Field" which features the Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabar, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar.
Never dwelling in the past, Robert Plant is always looking to the future — and he's got a new band, Saving Grace, which happens to be the name of his forthcoming solo album, released September 26 — which includes a gorgeous Low cover which features Suzi Dian.
Also in the hour, The Beths, Still Blank, Home Counties, Ruby Gill, and Montevideo-born, Brooklyn-based Juan Wauters.
That's "UKNY," Sundays 11pm-midnight, on 90.7FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. (Auckland, NZ) The Beths, “No Joy,” Straight Line Was a Lie
2. Home Counties, “Humdrum,” Humdrum
3. Kokoroko, “Closer to Me,” Tuff Times Never Last
4. Wolf Alice, “The Sofa,” The Clearing
5. (ES-UK) Clara Serra López, “Nos Es Veneno,” Lengua Materna (Part 1) EP
6. (UY-US) Juan Wauters, “Manejando por Pando,” MVD LUV
7. Little Simz, “Lonely,” Lotus
8. Blood Orange feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek, and Daniel Caesar, “The Field,” Essex Honey
9. Robert Plant feat. Suzi Dian, “Everybody’s Song,” Saving Grace
10. (UK-MX-US) Africa Express feat. Damon Albarn, Luisa Almaguer, Nick Zinner, Seye Adelekan, Joan as a Police Woman, Mexican Institute of Sound, “Soledad,” Africa Express Presents Bahidorá
11. The Last Dinner Party, “This is the Killer Speaking,” From the Pyre
12. (UK-US) Still Blank, “Ain’t Quite Right,” single
13. (ZA-AU) Ruby Gill, “Room Full of Human Male Politicians,” Some Kind of Control
14. Billie Marten, “Clover, “ Dog Eared
