UKNY for July 21
Sports Team (photo by Bartek Szmigulski, PR)
Despite some past promises of a hiatus, the Cambridge-bred, London sextet Sports Team seem to have no such plans in sight. Mercury Prize nominees for their 2020 debut album, Deep Down Happy, they followed that up with 2022's Gulp!, indefatigable touring, and visited Studio A for an FUV Live session last year. Last week, Sports Team released a new single, "I'm in Love (Suburu)," from their third album, Boys These Days, that comes out next February.
The brassy, buoyant track bouncing from Boys These Days finds Sports Team broadening their sound by configuring a sleek late '70 or early '80s New Romantic vibe, from singer Alex Rice's smooth croon (think Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley) to a swaggering sax lead. It's delicious — and I'll get to it tonight on "UKNY" at 11 p.m.
Primal Scream is also back with a first single pulled from Come Ahead, their first album in eight years, due out on November 8. In Bobby Gillespie's words, it's a quintessential Glaswegian album.
London's always-adventurous Public Service Broadcasting look to the legacy of Amelia Earhart for their forthcoming conceptual album, The Last Flight, released October 4. The first song from it, "Electra," is named after Earhart's airplane.
And over the hour, I'll also get to just-released songs from Kelly Lee Owens, Nectar Woode, Night Swimming, Ben Böhmer, and New York-born, L.A.-based Ganavya, who plays Joe's Pub tonight (with another show at National Sawdust on October 3).
British and global releases on "UKNY," Sundays 11 a.m,-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Public Service Broadcasting, “Electra,” The Last Flight
2. W.H. Lung, “How to Walk,” Every Inch of Earth Pulsates
3. Primal Scream, “Love Insurrection,” Come Ahead
4. Sports Team, “I Love You (Suburu),” Boys These Days
5. Metronomy feat. Miki and Faux Real, “Contact High,” Posse EP Volume Two
6. Kelly Lee Owens, “Love You Got,” Dreamstate
7. (Berlin, DE-SE) Ben Böhmer feat. Lykke Li, “Hiding,” Bloom
8. Nectar Woode, “30 Degrees,” single
9. Whitelands, “Cheer,” Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day
10. Night Swimming," Let That Be Enough,” No Place to Land EP
11. (New York, US-IN) Ganavya, “draw something beautiful,” single
12. Esme Emerson, “Show You (Truck Song),” Big Leap, No Faith, Small Chancer EP
13. (Zurich, CH) Priya Ragu, “Vacation,” Santhosam
14. (Vienna, AT) salute feat piri, “luv stuck,” True Magic
