UKNY for June 18

In the winter of 2022, Nottingham's Divorce released their debut single, "Services" — and I was instantly enamored of the quartet's distorted, discordant snarl of guitar and the interplay between vocalists Tiger Cohen-Towell and Felix MacKenzie-Barrow. Divorce's singles tumbled out over that year, culminating in an excellent debut EP, Get Mean, released last December.

Divorce have now signed to Gravity/EMI and with that announcement comes a brand new single — which I'll play on tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m.

Bombay Bicycle Club is back with news of a new album, My Big Day, released on October 20 which will feature collaborations with Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and others. Manchester's Secret Night Gang's second album, Belongs on a  Place Called Earth, is out this Friday and Dublin punk rockers Sprints have a corrosive new single.

Also in the mix: Londoners Pozi, Alfa Mist, Whitelands, and Patrick Wolf too.

British and international releases on "UKNY," Sundays 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online and in the Archives after broadcast.

Songs played:

1. Bombay Bicycle Club, “My Big Day,” My Big Day
2. Pozi, “Faulty Receiver,” Smiling Pools
3. (Dublin, IE) Sprints, “Adore Adore Adore,” single
4. Divorce, “Birds,” single
5. (NZ-US) Unknown Mortal Orchestra, “Guilty Pleasures,” V
6. (US-UK) Theo Croker feat. Ego Ella May and D’LEAU, “Good Day,” By the Way EP
7. Whitelands, “Setting Sun,” single
8. Patrick Wolf, “The Night Safari,” Night Safari EP
9. Secret Night Gang, “Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings,” Belongs on a Place Called Earth
10. (Chicago, US) McKinley Dixon feat. Miss Jaylin Brown, “Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?” Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
11. SAULT, “Wildfires,” Untitled (Black Is)
12. Little Simz, “Heart on Fire,” NO THANK YOU
13. Alfa Mist feat. Kaya Thomas-Dyke, “Aged Eyes,” Variables
14. (CM-New York, US) Vagabon, “Can I Talk My S**t?," Sorry I Haven’t Called