UKNY for September 21
Sprints (photo by Titouan Massé, PR)
Meandering the globe — down different, disconnected avenues — on tonight's "UKNY" at 11pm with a Ireland's Sprints leading the way with "Better" from their second album, All That is Over. Singer Karla Chubb says it is definitely not a love song. Sprints' latest album makes its way into the world this Friday, September 26.
Another Irish artist, Dove Ellis, is touring with Geese in North America and has a beautiful new single which makes the most of his ethereally mutable voice, somewhat reminiscent of Jeff Buckley's wistful dreaminess. The Last Dinner Party's lead singer Abigail Morris also finds a deep nuance of grief resonant in her vocals for "The Scythe," the quintet's second single from their soon-to-arrive From the Pyre, due October 17.
Recent releases from Brighton's congratulations, Ghent's Soulwax, Lima-Berlin's Sofia Kourtesis, and Los Angeles's Thundercat as well, plus a left turn into the legacy of the 2 Tone label (still relevant, 46 years later, given contemporary current events).
Finally, remembering Robert Redford, who passed away on Tuesday, with a set; he was a BAFTA winner for Best Actor in 1970 (for "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," "Tell Them Willie Boy is Here," and "Downhill Racer").
That's "UKNY," Sundays from 11pm-midnight, on 90.7FM, streaming online and in the Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. (Dublin, IE) Sprints, “Better,” All That Is Over
2. congratulations, “This Life,” Join Hands
3. The Last Dinner Party, “The Scythe,” From the Pyre
4. (PE-DE) Sofia Kourtesis, “Sisters,” Volver EP
5. (Ghent, BE) Soulwax, “Run Free (radio edit),” All Systems Are Lying
6. (UK-GH-ML-FR) Africa Express feat. Onipa, Fatoumata Diawara, Abou Diarra, Mélissa Hié, Ophelia Hié, “Seya,” Africa Express Presents … Bahidorá
7. (Los Angeles, US) Thundercat feat. Remi Wolf, “Children of the Baked Potato,” single 8. (Galway, IE) Dove Ellis, “To the Sandals (radio edit),” single
9. The Specials, “Gangsters,” single
10. The Beat, “Ranking Full Stop,” single
11. The Selecter, “They Make Me Mad,” Too Much Pressure
12. The Bodysnatchers, “Ruder Than You,” single
13. The Specials, “Ghost Town,” single
14. (Los Angeles, US) Burt Bacharach, “The Sundance Kid,” Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack
15. (Spicewood, US) Willie Nelson, “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” The Electric Horseman soundtrack
16. Burt Bacharach, “South American Getaway,” Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid soundtrack
