Nilufer Yanya

Wow, I think I prefer her stripped down and slightly looser like this. Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWdIFrDUWOs

it feels more like a cool album track than an obvious single choice but i quite like it

like that riff in the verse is such a weird thing to build the song around, she actively resists her usual melodicism & even the chorus is quite restrained in that regard but it works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax_tCstL-H4

looking forward to seeing her at coachella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_c0e7LgMk

expecting this to be a pretty good album

new album is sounding good, idk if it's quite as great as the debut though

Enjoyed it on first listen. The closing track was probably my favourite

big turn inward, huge step up imo.

BNM on p4k
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nilufer-yanya-painless/

Weird that they categorize it as pop/r&b sounds like indie rock/pop to me. Not hearing the r&b.

maybe it was the 1975 thread where there was a running list of possible influences and "sounds like _____"

would be fun exercise with her music and the list orbs out hard with this release. seems like she had a rich musical interest from early age.

Let’s see…

- stabilize reminds me of bloc party’s debut
- midnight sun sounds a bit like radiohead, like arpeggi or the intro to paranoid android before it turns into a MBV wall of sound.
- trouble has an atmosphere that reminds of The XX but the guitar sounds more like Modest Mouse to my ears.

I'm liking the shit out of this. The songs are bangers.

incredible album this

a few random ones i hear

-midnight sun: smashing pumpkins, bush, silverchair
-trouble: sarah mclachlan, portishead
-belong with you: pixies, weezer

knew i would love this record from the instant it started

I haven't heard the album yet, but the acoustic guitar + beat on Midnight Sun sounded a lot like Four Tet circa Pause or maybe that one Luscious Jackson song. I also hear a lot of Odelay in the 90s-influenced indie that's around these days

ok I'm listening and none of those refs are relevant to the other songs, sorry

"trouble" is gorgeous wow

The drumming on "the mystic" is sick.

her debut was absolutely one of my favourite indie rock records of the last few years and this is a very worthy follow-up even if i don't quite love it as much. it's only a small shift (it's a bit more minor key, the tension's a bit more explicit, there's more propulsive drumming, the programmed beats are grittier) but it's all moved just a little bit away from the breezy sound of her debut. the only track i'm not sold on yet is "chase me" which is just lacking hooks & general points of interest compared to everything else.

the comparison i regularly saw thrown around early on with her was 'pixies meets sade' and that captures a lot of what she's doing but far from all of it, and she's moved a little further away from that now.

she's also occupying fairly similar territory to king krule but i like what she's done with it much much more

ooooh this is very good. Still sounds like her old material but way more explorative and all of it good. Saxes on "belong with you" are a good example.

I put the debut in my top ten that year, but this thing is hooks hooks hooks; it's as if she used what she learned about space and cool sounds and came up with song after song instead of what were even at its best impressively ruminative tone poems.

she's also occupying fairly similar territory to king krule but i like what she's done with it much much more

― ufo, Monday, March 7, 2022 6:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

wow i never would've thought this based on her prior work, guess i gotta listen to her new one

idk i would have said that about her earlier work too, there's fairly clear similarities in their sonic palettes, just the new one is a little gloomier which brings her a bit closer? her songs are still poppier & breezier than the sort of murk he prefers though by a fair way

on my first listen and i do hear where you're coming from, "l/r" seems like something he could've done, but he would've skipped the lovely falsetto chorus and those unexpected major chords that pop in

- stabilize reminds me of bloc party’s debut

yes

did a great version of “rid of me” live tonight

oooh

I was actively trying to decide if the album reminded me of PJ. I was leaning yes, so that's cool to hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36gGaOtT-A

great performance

I like that energetic live version of Midnight Sun on Fallon better than anything I heard on my first listen to the album

great performance for sure, but the drummer looks so much like tim robinson that it nearly took me out of the whole thing haha

Fuuuck this is fantastic.

(the album)

must be hard to suddenly play a drummerless show (out sick apparently -- "we had to leave him behind... somewhere"), but last night was amazing. kinda emphasized how Yanya has the best guitar sound of anyone right now. it also made the "Rid of Me" cover feel more like a reimagining, just Jazzi Bobbi's foghorn blasts to signal the loud part.

she's officially released the Rid of Me cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB1GP5XuK5s

fuck, she’s so great. Her guitar work sounds like the platonic ideal of what I wish I could play, perfect hybrid of rhythm and melody.