UKNY for September 29

In the winter of 2022, I played the debut single, "Services," from the Nottingham quartet called Divorce. It was clear from that first song, a witty, fuzzy, bass-heavy jog through roadside service stations, that this quartet of singer/bassist Tiger Cohen-Towell, singer/guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow, guitarist Adam Peter Smith and drummer Kasper Sandstrøm were something special. Over the last couple of years, Divorce have released a slew of fantastic singles, zigzagging from grunge-splashed pop to Americana murder ballads to plaintive ballads, and a couple of exceptional EPs too, Get Mean and Heady Metal. I finally caught up to them live at SXSW in March (and dragged everyone I knew in Austin to see them too).

Divorce just announced their debut album, Drive to Goldenhammer, released on March 7 on Gravity/Capitol (they began on the Hand in Hive label). If you don't already know of them — you will soon — and on UKNY tonight at 11pm, the first official single from their debut album.

And like every other patient fan of The Cure, the release of "Alone" last week was a happy one — as is news of the band's first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World. I'll get to that brooding beauty (which began their concerts during the Cure's "Shows of the Lost World" tour). Also in the mix, a track from Nubya Garcia's exceptional second album, Odyssey, and a just-dropped riotous blast from Dublin's Sprints, who played Music Hall of Williamsburg last night.

Orkney composer Erland Cooper will be at (Le) Poisson Rouge on October 1 and I'll get to something from his remarkable new album, Carve the Runes Then Be Content with Silence.

Also, Warmduscher, Public Service Broadcasting, Nilüfer Yanya, and a beautiful unplugged performance of a new Underworld track.

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