UKNY for November 7

Black Country, New Road has weathered many highs and lows during their brief career. Nominated for a 2021 Mercury Prize for their astonishing debut album which came out earlier in the year, For the First Time, they've already announced their second album, Ants from Up There, released on Ninja Tune in Feburary of 2022. But the band, forced to cancel their UK and European tour during first lockdown in 2020, have had to cancel their second European tour this autumn due to a band member's illness.

Still, this innovative septet of gifted musicians, straddling post-punk, klezmer, jazz, and more, are looking ahead to their first North American tour in 2022, including two winter dates in Brooklyn at The Sultan Room on February 22 and Elsewhere on February 23.  On tonight's "UKNY" at 11 p.m., another track from their forthcoming second album, which also made an appearance in their livestream performance at Southbank Centre in March.

Also in the mix: More from the scathing, witty, and brutal Yard Act from Leeds, from their 2022 debut album, The Overload, and Limerick's Sinead O Brien looks ahead to her first full album too. Theon Cross, of Sons of Kemet, has released a solo album, Intra-I. Also, new Spiritualized, Wednesday's Child, and Group Listening too.

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

Songs played:
1. Yard Act, “Land of the Blind,” The Overload
2. Wednesday’s Child, “Nearby Nowhere,” Wednesday’s Child EP
3. (Limerick, IE) Sinead O Brien, “Girlkind,” single
4. Afflecks Palace, “Carpe Diem,” What Do You Mean It’s Not Raining
5. Spiritualized, “Always Together With You (radio edit),” Everything Was Beautiful
6. Nubya Garcia, “Source (Dengue Dengue Dengue Mix),” Source ⧺ We Move
7. Vanishing Twin, “Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou),” Ookii Gekkou
8. Theon Cross feat. Shumba Maasai, “Roots,” Intra-I
9. Bess Atwell, “Red Light Heaven,” Already Always
10. Group Listening, “Sunset Village,” Clarinet & Piano Selected Works Vol 2
11. Black Country, New Road, “Bread Song,” Ants from Up There
12. Massive Attack, “Hymn of the Big Wheel (Nellee Hooper mix), Blue Lines – The Remixes
13. Boards of Canada, “Sundown,” Tomorrow’s Harvest