UKNY for June 13

London's Wolf Alice has released, hands down, one of the very best albums of 2021: Blue Weekend. The band's third full release, it comes four years after Visions of a Life, which won the quartet the Mercury Prize, easily slipping past fellow nominees like Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine.

Blue Weekend reaches for even more ambitious production — Arcade Fire and Coldplay veteran Markus Dravs produces and there's strings this time 'round — and Ellie Rowsell's lyrics are an adroit mix of wit, anguish and confession. On tonight's UKNY at 11, one of the prettiest songs from the album (which the band will also perform in their new session for FUV Live, airing this Tuesday, June 15, at 9p.m. ET).

Also in the mix: Wiltshire's Wasuremono, Manchester's LoneLady and Francis Lung, and Londoners Sons of Kemet and Greentea Peng. Girl Ray hook up with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and Al Doyle for a new song and there's another inkling of LUMP's forthcoming album, via another quirky teased track from pals Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay.

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

Songs played:

1. Wolf Alice, “How Can I Make It OK?,” Blue Weekend
2. Wasuremono, “An Ordinary Life,” Let’s Talk, Pt. 1
3. Girl Ray, “Give Me Your Love (radio edit),” single
4. Jungle, “Talk About It (radio edit),” Loving in Stereo
5. LoneLady, “(There Is) No Logic,” Former Things
6. Sons of Kemet, “Think of Home,” Black to the Future
7. Greentea Peng, “Nah It Ain’t the Same (radio edit),” Man Made
8. Francis Lung, “Want 2 Want U,” Miracle
9. (Rennes, FR) La Battue, “Watch Me,” Get Set Go EP
10. LUMP, “Climb Every Wall,” Animal
11. The Catenary Wires, “Face on the Rail Line,” Birling Gap
12. Alfa Mist feat. Kaya Thomas-Dyke, “People,” Bring Backs
13. (US-CA) Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Ever New,” Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Keyboard Fantasies