Nilüfer Yanya has announced her new album, My Method Actor, which arrives Sept. 13 via Ninja Tune and marks her label debut.
The record also features the fuzzy “Like I Say (I runaway),” which she shared in April, and was made with her longtime creative partner Wilma Archer. Yanya calls it her “most intense album,” and you can hear that in her latest single “Method Actor,” where the riffs swell in the choruses while she drills down on evocative lyricism about faded dreams and burnout.
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“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,” Yanya says of the song’s concept. “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.”
See the video for “Method Actor,” plus check out the album artwork and tracklisting, below.
Nilüfer Yanya My Method Actor tracklist
“Keep On Dancing”
“Like I Say (I runaway)”
“Method Actor”
“Binding”
“Mutations”
“Ready for Sun (touch)”
“Call It Love”
“Faith’s Late”
“Made Out Of Memory”
“Just A Western”
“Wingspan”
