Nilüfer Yanya by Molly Daniel
“Cold Heart” LISTEN: https://niluferyanya.lnk.to/coldPR
What the press is saying about Nilüfer Yanya:
“A melodically rich meditation on identity, desire and the reverberations of heartache, My Method Actor is confident and hypnotic” The New York Times
"Ms. Yanya remains a master of emotional shading with a knack for writing tunes that stay with you after a single play. The expressive power of her singing continues to set her apart" The Wall Street Journal
"Nilüfer Yanya returns with the vibrant, spare and breathtaking ‘My Method Actor’. The London-based singer-songwriter is like no one else out there, offering songs that appear at first like pleasing soft sketches until they reveal their depth and power, like tissue paper made of palladium." Associated Press
"On ‘My Method Actor,’ Nilüfer Yanya draws deeply from a search for meaning with vulnerability and humor. Yanya has created a collection of songs that both grasp at the opacity of what is to come and revel in the freedom of letting go. ‘My Method Actor’ is Yanya’s most self-assured and driven album to date" The FADER
(April 28th, 2025) - 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.
Listen to “Cold Heart” above and stay tuned for more from Nilüfer Yanya coming soon. | 
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