UKNY for June 30
Self Esteem and Moonchild Sanelly (photo by Yana Van Nuffel, PR)
Tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m. — the final hour of #Pride2024 — goes out dancing with an inspired new single and collaboration from Self Esteem's Rebecca Lucy Taylor and Moonchild Sanelly, teeming with trenchant wit and a gender-bending message. It's Self Esteem's first official single since the Sheffield artist's breakthrough solo album, 2021's Prioritise Pleasure; a third album is in the near distance. South Africa's Sanelly is also looking ahead to a new album by year's end too.
The enigmatic Scottish producer SOPHIE tragically died in 2021 following an accidental fall; but her family plans to move ahead with the album she was working on at the time of her passing. That posthumous and self-titled album will be out later this year, and I'll have the first single from it tonight.
More of a moveable feast with The xx's Jamie xx and Romy moonlighting on their own projects; plus Floating Points, Berlin's Zimmer90, Lisbon-based Anna Prior, and Exeter's Soot Sprite, angling for a swim. Victoria Canal sees out June with a June tune, and another spin of my song of the summer so far: Fontaines D.C.'s "Favourite" from their forthcoming Romance, the penultimate song in their Glastonbury set this past Friday.
It might not be Glastonbury, but you'll still hear new British and global releases on "UKNY," Sundays from 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. (UK-ZA) Self Esteem + Moonchild Sanelly, “Big Man,” single
2. Anna Prior, “Who is She,” Almost Love EP
3. Honeyglaze, “Don’t,” Real Deal
4. (UK-DE-US) SOPHIE feat. Kim Petras + BC Kingdom, “Reason Why,” SOPHIE
5. (Berlin, DE) Zimmer90, “For You,” What Love Is EP
6. Romy, “Always Forever,” single
7. (UK-SE) Jamie xx feat. Robyn, “Life,” In Waves
8. Revival, Peyton & GeO Gospel Choir, “Freedom,” single
9. Berlioz, “Ode to Rahsaan,” Open This Wall
10. (DE-UK) Victoria Canal, “June Baby,” single
11. (Dublin, IE) Fontaines D.C., “Favourite,” Romance
12. Orchards, “Sweetie Pie,” Trust Issues EP
13. Soot Sprite, “I Went Swimming in the Water,” single
14. (DZ-ES) Aziza Brahim, “Duaa,” Mawja
15. Floating Points, “Del Oro,” single
