UKNY for November 12
Bombay Bicycle Club (Photo by Tom Oxley, PR)
London's Bombay Bicycle Club released their sixth album, My Big Day, last month, which debuted on the UK charts at No. 3. It's a relatively quick followup to 2020's Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, which came out just before all ground to a halt due to the pandemic, which truncated Bombay Bicycle Club's tour plans. Prior to that album, Jack Steadman, Ed Nash, Suren de Saram, and Jamie MacColl had been on a five-year hiatus, which they discussed when they visited me for an FUV Live session back in 2019.
My Big Day is an invigorating turn for the band — buoyant, experimental, and awash with intriguing collaborations, including one with Damon Albarn which I'll get to on tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m. Happily, Bombay Bicycle Club have set their sights on a long North American tour next year, including a stop at Brooklyn Steel on March 19.
Also in tonight's mix until midnight, the first song from Nadine Shah's Filthy Underneath, her fifth album, released on February 24. The past handful of years have been difficult ones for Shah, and she grapples with that turbulence on this new collection of songs.
London-based, Malaysian-Irish musician yunè pinku has a buzzy new single, and Colchester-via-Brighton rockers Egyptian Blue have finally released their debut album, A Living Commodity. Priya Ragu's debut album, Santhosam (which means "happiness" in Tamil), has arrived and I'll also have new releases from Leeds post-punks Yard Act, Scottish producer Barry Can't Swim, Sydney-via-Berlin's Logic1000, Montréal's Dominique Fils-Aimé and more.
That's "UKNY," an hour-long, late-night journey of British and global releases, Sundays 11 p.m.-midnight, on 90.7 FM, streaming online, and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Egyptian Blue, “To Be Felt,” A Living Commodity
2. Yard Act, “Dream Job,” Where’s My Utopia?
3. English Teacher, “Nearly Daffodils,” single
4. Nadine Shah, “Topless Mother,” Filthy Underneath
5. (Auckland, NZ) The Beths and Pickle Darling, “Brand New Colony (The Postal Service cover),” single
6. bar italia, “Jelsy,” The Twits
7. Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Damon Albarn, “Heaven,” My Big Day
8. Barry Can’t Swim feat. Falle Nioke and Blackboxx, “I Won’t Let You Down,” When Will We Land
9. (Sydney, AU-Berlin, DE) Logic1000 feat. Kayla Blackmon, “Self to Blame,” Mother
10. yunè pinku, “killing bee,” single
11. (Lima, PE-Berlin, DE) Sofia Kourtesis, “Cecilia,” Madres
12. (Zurich, CH) Priya Ragu, “Mani Osai,” Santhosam
13. (Montréal, CA) Dominique Fils-Aimé, “Our Roots Run Deep,” Our Roots Run Deep
