UKNY for May 5
mui zyu (photo by Tia Liu, PR)
Following the last couple of weeks on "UKNY" with an interview with Elbow's Guy Garvey and a session with Porij, there's a lot of new music to catch up on — and I'll do my best at 11 p.m. tonight with fresh releases. Including in that mix: 2023 Mercury Prize winners Ezra Collective, the rambunctious Fat Dog, and mui zyu, the London-based Eva Liu, who follows her gorgeous solo album of last year, Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century, with another collection of songs, nothing or something to die for on May 24.
The Brighton trio Our Girl is happily back with their first new single in six years — and they've bounced to the Bella Union label — and Nilüfer Yanya has also released her first song on her new label, Ninja Tune. Laufey, who just played two sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall (with special guests Norah Jones on Friday and Jon Batiste on Saturday), has an expanded "Goddess" edition of her second album Bewitched with more songs — I'll get to one of those additional tracks too.
Also, London's electrifying guitar-drums duo Fräulein, fast-rising British jazz saxophonist Jasmine Myra, and Swiss shoegazers Moonpools. And since the great Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi is in town for several events, including Tuesday's concert at Le Poisson Rouge which is focused on her score for the Oscar-winning "Drive My Car," something from that dreamy soundtrack too.
All that and much more on "UKNY," Sundays 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Nilüfer Yanya, “Like I Say (I runaway),” single
2. Fat Dog, “Running,” WOOF
3. Ezra Collective, “Ajala,” single
4. (UK-NL) Fräulein, “Pruning,” Sink or Swim
5. Our Girl, “Relief,” single
6. (HK-UK) mui zyu, “the rules of what an earthling can be,” nothing or something to die for
7. Jasmine Myra, “Still Waters,” Rising
8. English Teacher, “Albatross,” This Could Be Texas
9. Porij, “Stranger,” Teething
10. (Riyadh, SA-Brooklyn, US) Arooj Aftab, “Raat Ki Rani,” Night Reign
11. (Mobara, JP) Eiko Ishibashi, “Drive My Car (Kafuku),” Drive My Car original soundtrack
12. Thom Yorke, “Knife Edge,” Confidenza soundtrack
13. (Basel, CH) Moonpools, “Say Anything,” Hide & Seek EP
14. (Reykjavík, IS) Laufey, “Bored,” Bewitched (The Goddess Edition)
