Englishwoman Nilüfer Yanya impresses with her new album

The new English nugget, Nilüfer Yanya signs with “My Method Actor” a stunning album, which deserves the torrent of positive reviews that is currently pouring in. A young woman who really looks like a star in the making.

Timeless, unclassifiable, these are the two adjectives that immediately come to mind. By borrowing as much from rock, quasi-grunge, as from soul or pop, Nilüfer Yanya transforms her third album, “My Method Actor“, in a magnificent demonstration. She who never lets go of her guitar has patiently shaped her eleven songs with her accomplice Will Archer, in a hermetic bubble, one putting the other’s lyrics on the air, to reveal their beauty.

At a time when artists want to keep control at all costs, Nilüfer Yanya has therefore tested this new process, putting aside her apprehensions: “I don’t think I’m a producer, and it’s always scared me to give up control to someone else. I haven’t produced any of my albums, but I’ve worked with several producers at the same time, which made me feel like it was still mine.“.

A few months shy of her 30th birthday, the young Londoner shows astonishing maturity; she slips with ease into all styles, her suave voice doing the work to sew it all together.

Beyond her guitar, her passion is lyrics. In writing, she has always let go of all her problems, until she became who she is today: “Maybe I’m more honest in my lyrics, I have more experience, I can look back on my twenties to write, I can now look to the future, rather than the teenage ‘me’.”

“I’ve developed along with my music, so I’m slowly learning to be me, more and more.”

Nilüfer Yanya

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She adds: “I guess I can say that I am truly an adult and that changes my view of the world, of the future, of what I want to do. This record is a bit like a transition“And it is towards her, today, that all eyes are turning.

Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor (Ninja Tune). Album available.