UKNY for May 2

Last year, Little Simz, the Islington rapper Simbi Ajikawo, released the critically-praised, lockdown-generated Drop 6 EP, which itself was a brisk, deeply personal follow-up to her Ivor Novello-winning, Mercury Prize-nominated third album, 2019's GREY Area. (Little Simz also did an FUV Live session two years ago too.)

On September 3, Little Simz releases her fourth album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and on "UKNY" at 11 tonight, the epic first single from that album, a collaboration between Simz, her longtime producer Inflo and pal Cleo Sol (the pair are also at the heart of the somewhat anonymous collective, Sault), and even actress Emma Corrin, who played Diana, Princess of Wales, in "The Crown."

Dave, who was the Mercury Prize winner in 2019 for his debut album, Psychodrama, returns with new music too and Scottish jangle pop veterans Teenage Fanclub have released their new album, Endless Arcade, the band's first venture without founding member Gerard Love, but with the addition of Euros Childs on keyboards.

Also, new tunes from Hussy, Daniel Avery, Kero Kero Bonito, Rachel Chinouriri, Lucy Gooch and the late Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, whose posthumous album, There is No End, was released on Friday, on the one-year anniversary of his passing.

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

Songs played:

1. Kero Kero Bonito, “21/04/20,” Civilisation II EP
2. (Melbourne-Sydney AU) Gordi and Alex Lahey, “Dino’s,” single
3. Hussy, “I Tried,” single
4. Little Simz feat. Cleo Sol and Emma Corrin, “Introvert,” Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
5. (Lima, PE-Berlin, DE) Sofia Kourtesis, “La Perla,” Fresia Magdelena EP
6. Lucy Gooch, “Rain’s Break,” Rain’s Break EP
7. Teenage Fanclub, “The Sun Won’t Shine On Me,” Endless Arcade
8. Dave feat. Kamal, “Mercury,” single
9. (UK-FR) Bobbie Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, “Remember We Were Lovers,” Utopian Ashes
10. Rachel Chinouriri, “Give Me A Reason,” Four° In Winter EP
11. Eloise, “Intertwined,” Somewhere In-Between
12. (NI/Paris, FR-ZM/Melbourne, AU) Tony Allen with Sampa the Great, “Stumbling Down, “ There Is No End
13. Daniel Avery, “Endless Hours,” Together in Static