UKNY for November 17

Everyone and everything seems to be in flux these days, a fact that singer and songwriter Rachael Dadd addresses in her wise and wonderful new album, which is called FLUX. Living between Bristol, England and the Hiroshama prefecture in Japan, Dadd brings her own experience of immigration laws, the climate emergency, motherhood, and interpersonal discord and disconnection to the tapestry of her latest release. I've been playing singles from this album, one of my favorites of 2019, for the past couple of months and now that it is finally released via Memphis Industries, I'll get to a deeper track on tonight's UKNY at 11.

Also, songs from London's Bat for Lashes, Irish-born Róisín Murphy, Cardiff's Boy Azooga, Scotland's Anna Meredith, French popsters Le Superhomard and Cologne's effervescent Sparkling. All that and more on UKNY 11 p.m.-midnight on 90.7FM, also streaming online and available in the Weekend Archives up to two weeks after broadcast.

Songs played:

1. Bat for Lashes, “Peach Sky,” Lost Girls
2. Sea Girls, “Violet,” single
3. Ride, “Jump Jet,” This is Not a Safe Place
4. Whyte Horses, “Ça Plane Pour Moi,” (Plastic Bertrand cover) Hard Times
5. (Rochefort-du-Gard, France) Le SuperHomard, “SDVB,” single and Meadow Lane Park
6. (Cologne, Germany) Sparkling, “I Want to See Everything,” I Want to See Everything
7. (Wicklow, Ireland) Róisin Murphy, “Narcissus,” single
8. Liz Lawrence, “Life Again,” Pity Party
9. Rachael Dadd, “Two Islands,” FLUX
10. Boy Azooga, “O Silly Me,” single
11. Keira Knightley, “Lost Stars,” Begin Again [Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture]
12. Anna Meredith, “Unfurl,” FIBS
13. The Comet is Coming, “Astral Flying,” Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery