UKNY For September 23: 2008
Albums released in 2008 (collage by Laura Fedele, WFUV)
Where were you in the fall of 2008? As you might know, FUV has been flashing back decade by decade for the last four Thursdays of the summer — 1998, 1988, 1978 and 1968 — but tonight on UKNY at 11, on this first full day of autumn, I thought I'd just throw things back by a mere ten years, to a handful of notable British and international albums of 2008.
And it was quite a year, with remarkable debuts from Laura Marling, Foals, and Adele and also the last studio album (so far) from Portishead. There were some fantastic one-offs too, via The Week That Was, a side project from Field Music's Peter Brewis, and Umalali and the Garifuna Collective, a ten-year research odyssey undertaken by Belizean producer Ivan Duran.
Travel back in time at your leisure too, and catch up to UKNY in the Weekend Archives, immediately after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. The Week That Was, “The Airport Line,” The Week That Was
2. Foals, “Olympic Airways,” Antidotes
3. Mystery Jets feat. Laura Marling, “Young Love,” Twenty One
4. Neon Neon feat. Cate LeBon, “I Lust You,” Stainless Style
5. (New York/Chichester) Hercules and Love Affair feat. Anohni and Nomi Ruiz, “You Belong,” Hercules and Love Affair
6. (Masterton, NZ) Ladyhawke, “Paris is Burning,” Ladyhawke
7. Estelle, “In the Rain,” Shine
8. (Belize, Honduras, Guatemala) Umalali and the Garifuna Women’s Project, “Hattie,” Umalali
9. Portishead, “Nylon Smile,” Third
10. (Skultana, SE) Esbjörn Svensson Trio (E.S.T), “Jazz,” Leucocyte
11. Laura Marling, “My Manic and I,” Alas, I Cannot Swim
12. Adele, “Daydreamer,” 19
13. Elbow, “One Day Like This,” The Seldom Seen Kid
