UPCOMING SUMMER TOUR DATES INCLUDING OSHEAGA AND TORONTO
ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MISS UNIVERSE
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★★★★
-The Guardian, The Independent, MOJO, Uncut, Q, Loud & Quiet,
DIY, The Skinny, Dork, All Music
“The rapturous debut from the British singer-songwriter takes adventurous pop-rock crucibles to new heights with her illusory songwriting and stunning voice.” -Pitchfork (8.3, Best New Music)
“Her voice is the center of the galaxy” -Wall Street Journal
“[Miss Universe] skates swiftly from scuzzy rock to pinprick funk, from power chords and splatting cymbals to soft, prettily multi-tracked hooks…unabashedly beautiful”
-Rolling Stone (Artist You Need to Know)
“On her debut album, Miss Universe, Yanya has pulled one more trick from her sleeve: crafting an entire world unto herself.” -NPR (First Listen)
“Yanya oozes starpower” -MTV
“Innovative and striking pop euphoria … every track sends shivers down the spine”
-CLASH (9/10)
Watch the video for “Baby Blu” HERE
Listen to Miss Universe HERE
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(Toronto, ON – April 11, 2019) – Today, breakout star Nilüfer Yanya has shared the brilliant video for her song “Baby Blu”, the latest single from her critically acclaimed debut record Miss Universe. Shot in Tokyo over New Years 2019, the video for “Baby Blu” is something of a family affair, starring Yanya, her sisters Molly and Elif, and brother Cemil. Yanya is currently in the midst of a Turkish, U.K. and European headline tour which included a sold-out show this week at London’s Hackney EartH. In July, Yanya will head back to the U.S. & Canada for her first U.S. headlining tour that will take her up to Canada to play a headlining gig in Toronto on August 3rd followed by an appearance at Montreal festival – Osheaga on August 4. Yanya has also just announced her biggest headline show to date at o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on November 17. Tickets for all U.S. dates are available HERE.
Already proclaimed Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on BBC Radio 1, the instantly infectious ‘Baby Blu’ is a stand out track amongst an album packed with stellar singles and powerful songwriting. Explaining the video shoot, Yanya said: “We shot the video in Tokyo over New Years – me and my sisters went to visit my brother who is studying there for a year. My sister Molly had the idea for theming the video around street racing cars, which proved to be quite difficult to track down as it’s highly illegal in Japan. We managed to find a few car shows and garages, got some fast rides and had lots of fun. For me this video is really about us as siblings, refusing to let go of each other and our childhood.”
The ambitious and compelling debut album from Yanya arrived in March on ATO Records. Miss Universe has since seen widespread acclaim from a vast number of publications, including a NPR First Listen, Pitchfork Best New Music, and Rolling Stone Artist You Need to Know accolades. Miss Universe received rave reviews from The Guardian (Album of the Week), The Independent, MOJO, Q, Uncut, Wall Street Journal, Stereogum (Album of the Week), The Line of Best Fit (Album of the Week), CLASH, DIY, NYLON, Paste, All Music, Exclaim!, Dork, MTV News, Vinyl Me Please, Jezebel, FLOOD and more.
Largely recorded in the same remote Penzance studio she used to jam in with her uncle Joe – a former musician himself – Miss Universe features co-productions with both her former school guitar teacher The Invisible’s Dave Okumu and her live bandmates Jazzi Bobbi and Luke Bower, as well as producers John Congleton, Oli Barton-Wood, Will Archer and M.T. Hadley. Inventive, expressive and rapturous, the album has seen Yanya deservedly hailed as a true original and a vitally important new voice in indie-rock.
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See Nilüfer Yanya on tour in 2019:
April 11 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
April 12 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
April 13 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
April 14 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
April 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
April 17 – Hamburg, GER @ Nochtwache
April 18 – Berlin, GER @ Kantine am Berghain
April 19 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Motel Mozaique
April 21 – Vienna, Austria @ Chelsea Club
April 22 – Munich, GER @ Ampere
April 24 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Exil
April 25 – Koln, GER @ Blue Shell
April 26 – Paris, FRA @ Le Point Ephemere
April 29 – Brussels, BEL @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival
April 30 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merleyn
May 1 – Utrecht, Holland @ ACU
June 1 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
July 19-21 – Melt! Festival, Germany
July 23 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
July 24 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
July 26 – Camden, NJ @ Xponential Festival July 27 – Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival July 30 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop July 31 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
August 1 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
August 2 – Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx
August 3 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
August 4 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
August 8-12 – Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender
August 15-18 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales
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