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Nilüfer Yanya by Molly Daniel
Today, Nilüfer Yanya shares a new single “Cold Heart.” The song was written alongside a collection of tracks that Nilüfer re-approached with her creative partner Wilma Archer when she returned from touring her latest record. The song opens with a synth melody and Nilüfer’s haunting vocals. Nilüfer shares, “This one turned out pretty different to how I imagined it. The initial melody felt very spacious, like there’s room for anything to happen. It felt like a kind of experiment.”
Nilüfer will be performing at a string of European festivals over the summer including Glastonbury, Green Man, All Points East, Primavera a la Ciutat, Best Kept Secret, Way Out West, and Oya Festival. The dates follow her headline tour across North America, the UK and Europe last year selling over 25,000 tickets including sold out shows at Brooklyn Steel in NY, The Fonda in LA, HERE @ Outernet in London and two nights at La Bellevilloise in Paris.
The new single follows Nilüfer Yanya’s latest album My Method Actor, which was released to overwhelming critical praise with a Best New Music stamp from Pitchfork and the New York Times describing as, “A melodically rich meditation on identity, desire and the reverberations of heartache.”
The album bloomed into being in unexpected ways helping Yanya make sense of her world and the ways it’s changing, entering her late twenties and grappling with what it means to be an established musician.
My Method Actor follows Nilüfer’s previous albums PAINLESS and Miss Universe, both of which also received high praise, ranking among the year’s best by The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Vulture and more. Nilüfer performed celebrated singles on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Later with Jools Holland and NPR’s legendary Tiny Desk concert series. She’s supported Adele, the XX and Mitski on tour, headlined London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire and sold out shows across Europe, Australia, Japan and the USA. Yanya has also been remixed by Sampha, King Krule and Little Dragon and has collaborated with Bombay Bicycle Club and Liss. Nilüfer is a founding member of the community project Artists In Transit which takes creative workshops and other support to displaced communities and people in times of hardship.
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