https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_c0e7LgMk
expecting this to be a pretty good album
― ufo, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
new album is sounding good, idk if it's quite as great as the debut though
― ufo, Friday, 4 March 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
Enjoyed it on first listen. The closing track was probably my favourite
― monotony, Friday, 4 March 2022 05:40 (two years ago) link
big turn inward, huge step up imo.
― anza808, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
BNM on p4khttps://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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 4 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
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.
― anza808, Saturday, 5 March 2022 04:16 (two years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
I'm liking the shit out of this. The songs are bangers.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
incredible album this
― Qamon (||||||||), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
a few random ones i hear
-midnight sun: smashing pumpkins, bush, silverchair-trouble: sarah mclachlan, portishead-belong with you: pixies, weezer
― anza808, Monday, 7 March 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
knew i would love this record from the instant it started
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 7 March 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 7 March 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
ok I'm listening and none of those refs are relevant to the other songs, sorry
"trouble" is gorgeous wow
― rob, Monday, 7 March 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
The drumming on "the mystic" is sick.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 7 March 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
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.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
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.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 23:00 (two years ago) link
― 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
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
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
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
- stabilize reminds me of bloc party’s debut
yes
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
did a great version of “rid of me” live tonight
― Qamon (||||||||), Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
oooh
I was actively trying to decide if the album reminded me of PJ. I was leaning yes, so that's cool to hear
― rob, Thursday, 10 March 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36gGaOtT-A
great performance
― ufo, Saturday, 12 March 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
I like that energetic live version of Midnight Sun on Fallon better than anything I heard on my first listen to the album
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
great performance for sure, but the drummer looks so much like tim robinson that it nearly took me out of the whole thing haha
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
Fuuuck this is fantastic.
― piscesx, Sunday, 20 March 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
(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.
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Monday, 16 May 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
she's officially released the Rid of Me cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB1GP5XuK5s
― rob, Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
new single "like i say (runaway)" out on the 24th
― ufo, Sunday, 21 April 2024 12:09 (four days ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/niluferyanyaaaaaa/reel/C56P752Nw46/
― ufo, Sunday, 21 April 2024 12:10 (four days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfbnFyZpok
pretty nice
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:28 (yesterday) link
yeah, a good one!!
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 23:51 (yesterday) link
i didn’t expect such anthemic vibes.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:01 (seventeen hours ago) link