My Method Actor, by Nilufer Yanya

My Method Actor

by Nilufer Yanya

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misterelement Binding is THE tune for me…I LOVE it, so subtle, smooth, sexy and stylish songwriting!!
It gets super stuck in my head!!
It’ll always remind me of good times with my kiddo driving her baby to the playground in Spain; near where one of the video’s off this LP was shot!! Favorite track: Binding.

jaylecavalier This will make for a great addition to any indie rock collection, especially the first half of the album. Straight bangers at the front of this one. Favorite track: Method Actor.

baphomet This whole year has been full of amazing music and I personally think that My Method Actor pretty well embodies that. I think its nonstop bangers and most people will have a track they really super like. Favorite track: Like I Say (I runaway).

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140g Transparent Green 1LP in printed retro inner sleeves, housed in a printed matte varnish 12” Gatefold Sleeve. Download Code sticker included.

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Nilüfer Yanya - 'My Method Actor' White Label LP [ZEN307W]
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1.	Keep On Dancing 02:08	buy track
2.	Like I Say (I runaway) 02:57	buy track
3.	Method Actor 03:51	buy track
4.	Binding 05:16	buy track
5.	Mutations 04:16	buy track
6.	Ready for Sun (touch) 05:33	buy track
7.	Call It Love 04:53	buy track
8.	Faith’s Late 04:49	buy track
9.	Made Out Of Memory 03:34	buy track
10.	Just A Western 04:29	buy track
11.	Wingspan 02:27	buy track

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Nilüfer Yanya formally announces her new album My Method Actor, out September 13th on Ninja Tune. The news arrives alongside the release of her new single, the near-title track “Method Actor,” and follows her recent single “Like I Say (I runaway),” which the New York Times described as, “reveling in contrasting textures” and The FADER called, “a jolting return.” Putting herself in an unnamed character’s shoes, “Method Actor” portrays a mini-life story in under four minutes. The accompanying visualiser was shot in an old hotel in Benidorm, Spain and is a one take video capturing Nilüfer sitting down to share the song's story.

Speaking about “Method Actor” Nilüfer describes how the concept for the song came together, “I was researching method acting - and from what I read, it’s based on finding this one memory in your life, a life-altering, life-changing memory. The reason why some people find method acting traumatic and maybe not safe mentally, is because you're always going back to that moment. It can be good or bad but you're always feeding off the energy, something that's defined you - and that's what helps you become the character. It’s a bit like being a musician. When you’re performing, you’re still trying to invoke the energy and emotion of when you first wrote it, in that moment. It definitely feels like you're having to recreate or step into that headspace.”

As a whole, Nilüfer Yanya’s third album asks questions with no easy answers. It is a supple, expansive body of work that peers into the crevices of life, exploring them with comforting strings, skittering beats, soul-tinged melodies and swooning harmonies. It asks, who are we? Why do we follow the paths we follow? What is at the heart of it all?

While writing My Method Actor, Nilüfer retreated into the studio with her creative partner, Wilma Archer (Sudan Archives/MF Doom/Celeste). She had toured her second album, PAINLESS, for a year and entered a period of transition, between albums, between record companies, between homes. My Method Actor deals a lot with the idea of movement from one part of life and into another. The seeds of My Method Actor were planted in early 2023, but it wasn’t until the spring of that year that shoots began to appear. As songs started to form, Yanya and Archer squirreled themselves away from the world. “This is the most intense album, in that respect,” Yanya says. “Because it’s only been us two. We didn’t let anyone else into the bubble.” They wrote and recorded in small sessions, spread across London, Wales and Eastbourne. You can feel this cocooning of creative energy in the atmosphere of the record: it envelopes you entirely in cinematic sweeps while feeling intimate, finally inviting you into the little world they created and offering up its secrets.

Songs bloomed into being in unexpected ways helping Yanya make sense of her world and the ways it’s changing as she enters her late twenties and grapples with what it means to be an established musician. “For me, writing is definitely problem solving - in the way they say that dreaming is like problem solving. You're like, oh, that sounds good. That looks good. That makes sense. But you don't really know why. You're kind of using that part of your creative brain that doesn't have to make sense.” Her lyrics are specific and hazy at once, and sometimes surreal: she talks about the songs as though she’s trying to decipher the person she was when she wrote them.

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released September 13, 2024

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Nilufer Yanya London, UK

London based singer/songwriter.

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Jul 16

Bánffy Castle

Bonțida, Romania
Aug 1

Curraghmore House & Gardens

Portlaw, Ireland
Aug 6

Tøyenparken

Oslo, Norway
Aug 7

Slottsskogen

Gothenburg, Sweden
Aug 13

Praia Fluvial Do Taboão

Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Aug 15

Marinen

Trondheim, Norway
Aug 23

The Clifton Downs

Bristol, UK
Aug 24

Victoria Park

London, UK
Sep 9

The Drake - Amherst

Amherst, MA
Sep 11

Roadrunner

Boston, MA
Sep 13

The Agora

Cleveland, OH
Sep 14

History

Toronto, ON
Sep 15

History

Toronto, ON
Sep 17

Fairgrounds, The Salt Shed (Outdoors)

Chicago, IL
Sep 18

Palace Theatre

St. Paul, MN
Sep 20

Mission Ballroom

Denver, CO
Sep 22

Harlow's

Sacramento, CA
Sep 23

Fox Theater

Oakland, CA
Sep 26

Greek Theatre

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Sep 27

Greek Theatre

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Sep 28

Arizona Financial Theatre

Phoenix, AZ
Sep 30

Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater (Outdoors)

Austin, TX
Oct 1

Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater (Outdoors)

Austin, TX
Oct 3

The Eastern

Atlanta, GA
Oct 4

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville, TN
Oct 6

The Ritz

Raleigh, NC
Oct 7

The Anthem

Washington, DC
Oct 8

Radio City Music Hall

New York (NYC), NY
Oct 11

The Fillmore Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA
Oct 12

The Fillmore Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA
Nov 14

Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

Mexico City, Mexico
Nov 16

The O2

London, UK
Nov 19

OVO Hydro

Glasgow, UK
Nov 20

Utilita Arena Birmingham

Birmingham, UK
Nov 22

RDS Simmonscourt

Dublin, Ireland
Nov 24

AFAS Live

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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