UKNY for June 23
Ezra Collective (photo by Yout, PR)
London's Ezra Collective was the first jazz act to ever win the Mercury Prize last year, for their second album, 2022's Where I'm Meant to Be, and on September 27, they'll release their third album, Dance, No One's Watching. On tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m., the latest single drawn from that autumn-scheduled album, which features another rising jazz artist, Yazmin Lacey (who did a Five Essential Albums for FUV last year). Ezra Collective play a free Central Park SummerStage concert on Sunday, July 7, as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival.
The South London-based trio Honeyglaze have teased their second album, Real Deal, with a searing new single while Fontaines D.C.'s second drop off of their forthcoming Romance might be the prettiest bit of pop confection they've ever recorded. I'll also have fresh releases from Manchester's Pale Waves, rising UK jazz artist Tammie, and a twangy, countrified love song from The Japanese House's Amber Bain. Also, King Hannah (playing Elsewhere on July 2), Lucy Rose, Peggy Gou and more.
That's "UKNY," 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Pale Waves, “Perfume,” Smitten
2. (Dublin, IE) Fontaines D.C., “Favourite,” Romance
3. Nilüfer Yanya, “Method Actor,” My Method Actor
4. Ezra Collective feat. Yasmin Lacey, “God Gave Me Feet for Dancing,” Dance, No One’s Watching
5. Lucy Rose, “Could You Help Me,” This Ain’t the Way You Go Out
6. TAMMIE, “Hello Sunshine,” single
7. Honeyglaze, “Don’t,” Real Deal
8. Camera Obscura, “We’re Gonna Make It in a Man’s World,” Look to the East, Look to the West
9. The Japanese House, “:) (Smiley Face),” single
10. (KR-DE-US) Peggy Gou feat. Villano Antillano, “All That,” I Hear You
11. Yannis & the Yaw and Tony Allen, “Under the Strikes,” Lagos Paris London EP
12. (Kinshasa, CD) KOKOKO! “Salaka Bien,” Butu
13. King Hannah, “Davey Says,” Big Swimmer
14. (Nice-Paris, FR) Francis Lai with Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh, “Un Homme et une Femme (chant),” Un Homme et une Femme soundtrack
