UKNY for June 20

Penelope Trappes (photo by Agnes Haus, PR)
by Kara Manning | 06/20/2021 | 8:15am

Penelope Trappes (photo by Agnes Haus, PR)

Spring segues to summer during tonight's "UKNY" at 11, but all isn't just stark sunshine (or moonlight): London's The Surfing Magazines, Devon's Soot Sprite, and Brighton's Peggy Sue have some alternate views on the incoming season too.

Sydney-born, Brighton-based Penelope Trappes has released a kaleidoscopic, dreamy and atmospheric third album, Penelope Three, the endpiece in her trilogy. One lovely track is inspired by the Orkney myth of the Selkie, or seal folk  — and we'll hear that mist-cloaked song tonight.

Also, new releases from Birmingham-born Laura Mvula, who exults in her love of Eighties-era production, and more from Brighton — The Go! Team — who reached out to a youthful Detroit choir for their latest release. Longtime south London resident and steel pan master Fimber Bravo reflects on his Trinidadian family and homecomings.

There's a batch of international treats too, from Amsterstam's Pip Blom, Copenhagen's Efterklang, and a Far Rockaways band with Irish ties, The Forms.

Since the longest day of the year is upon us too, a look back to last year's stirring compilation, The Longest Day, a benefit album for the Alzheimer's Association.

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

Songs played:

1. Soot Sprite, “It’s Summer and I Don’t Feel Like Smiling,” single
2. The Go! Team, “A Bee Without Its Sting,” Get Up Sequences Pt. 1
3. (New York, US-EI) The Forms, “Southern Ocean,” single
4. Laura Mvula, “Got Me,” Pink Noise
5. Little Simz feat. Cleo Sol, “Woman (radio edit),” Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
6. SAULT, “Wildfires,” Untitled (Black Is)
7. (TT-London, UK) Fimber Bravo, “Coming Home,” Lunar Tredd
8. The Surfing Magazines, “Pink Ice Cream,” Badgers of Wymeswold
9. (Amsterdam, NL) Pip Blom, “Keep It Together,” single
10. Wolf Alice, “Lipstick on the Glass,” Blue Weekend
11. (Auckland, NZ-Cardiff, UK) Aldous Harding, “Old Peel,” single
12. (Toronto, CA) Cold Specks, “Turn to Stone,” The Longest Day
13. (Copenhagen, DK) Efterklang, “Living Other Lives,” Windflowers
14. (Sydney, AU-Brighton-UK) Penelope Trappes, “Fur & Feather,” Penelope Three
15. Peggy Sue, “Longest Day of the Year Blues,” Choir of Echoes

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