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NILÜFER YANYA ANNOUNCES 2020 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

March 12, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

BABY BLU, H3AT RISES, HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE YEAR, In Your Head, Miss Universe, Nilüfer Yanya, North American Tour, PARADISE

INCLUDING BONNAROO &

NELSONVILLE MUSIC FESTIVAL

HEADLINING DATES IN TORONTO, MONTREAL, BROOKLYN AND MORE

DEBUT ALBUM MISS UNIVERSE OUT NOW ON ATO RECORDS

photo credit: Molly Daniel

(Toronto, ON – March 12, 2020) – London’s Nilüfer Yanya had a triumphant 2019, releasing her distinctive debut album Miss Universe to global acclaim and selling out tour dates across Europe and North America. Nilüfer will return to the U.S. and Canada this summer, with headlining dates in June around her performances at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee and Nelsonville Music Festival in Ohio. New dates include shows at Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn,, and Lincoln, Chicago. Nilüfer will be playing the rescheduled Coachella on October 9-11 and October 16-18. All upcoming dates are below, and tickets for the June headlining tour will go on sale this Friday, March 13 at 10 am ET HERE.

Nilüfer is also opening four UK dates for King Krule later this month, including already sold-out dates in Glasgow, Manchester, and London’s famous Brixton Academy. King Krule’s latest album Man Alive! features two tracks (“Airport Antenatal Airplane” and “(Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On”) that sample Nilüfer’s debut single “Small Crimes.”

2020 TOUR DATES

3/21: Barrowland Ballroom w/ King Krule – Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT

3/22: Albert Hall w/ King Krule – Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT

3/24: O2 Academy Brixton w/ King Krule – Brixton, UK – SOLD OUT

3/25: O2 Academy Brixton w/ King Krule – Brixton, UK

4/02: KK Ankara – Ankara, TR

5/22: All Points East Festival – Victoria Park – London, UK

6/04: Thunderbird Café – Pittsburgh, PA

6/05: Nelsonville Festival – Nelsonville, OH

6/06: Black Cat – Washington, DC

6/08: Elsewhere – Brooklyn, NY

6/09: Sinclair – Boston, MA

6/10: Fairmount – Montreal, QC

6/11: Mod Club – Toronto, ON

6/13: Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival – Manchester, TN

6/15: Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL

6/16: A2SF – Ann Arbor, MI

8/07: Ypsigrock – Piazza Castello – Bari, IT

10/9-11: Coachella – Indio, CA

10/16-18: Coachella – Indio, CA

Nilüfer Yanya’s Miss Universe was named one of the best albums of 2019 by Pitchfork, Billboard, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, The Guardian, MTV, Noisey, The Independent, Paste, Under the Radar, Dazed, Clash, and more. NPR Music named her their #3 Best New Artist of 2019, behind only Billie Eilish and Maggie Rogers. Nilüfer performed her single “In Your Head” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Later…with Jools Hollandand played an incredible Tiny Desk Concert for NPR Music that had Bob Boilen raving, “I don’t know anyone who sings like Nilüfer.”

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEOS:

“H34T RISES” | “IN YOUR HEAD” | “BABY BLU”

“HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE YEAR”| “PARADISE”

“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

“[Miss Universe] feels wise beyond its years, yet has a joyful abandon about it that sounds intrinsically young.” – ESQUIRE

“She packages the unknown into crisp, fluid pop songs that act like elliptical thoughts, full of not-sures and maybes and endless possibilities.”

– STEREOGUM (Album of the Week)

“Innovative and striking pop euphoria … every track sends shivers down the spine.”

– CLASH (9/10)

“Shreddy indie rock rooted in soul, totally unique and exciting.” – THE FADER

“One of 2019’s most fascinating breakouts.” – UPROXX

“Sharp, straightforward songwriting, a refreshing willingness to take on a variety of genres and a palette of distorted guitars that jostle and slice with precision.”

– BILLBOARD

“An abstract and contemplative study of the mental and physical, tackling ambitious themes.” – HARPER’S BAZAAR

“A strikingly confident record.” – UNDER THE RADAR

“An impressive collection of tough, simple pop-rock songs… it’s a debut that seems designed to showcase her range as a rising artist.” – JEZEBEL

“An emotionally multi-faceted album to luxuriate in.” – PASTE

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NILÜFER YANYA SHARES NEW TRACK “TEARS” TODAY

February 21, 2019 by Cadence Recordings

Beats 1, In Your Head, Miss Universe, New Album, New Single, Nilüfer Yanya, Premiere, Tears, World First, Zane Lowe

UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM

MISS UNIVERSE OUT MARCH 22 ON

ATO RECORDS

ON TOUR NOW WITH SHARON VAN ETTEN

UPCOMING STOP IN VANCOUVER ON FRIDAY

“London’s most exciting pop artist” -Pitchfork

“An infectious earworm… The song feels like a moment of clarity for the singer” -NPR

“Boldness is warranted when you’ve got a hook as devastating as the one that Nilüfer Yanya repeats” -The New York Times

Listen to “Tears” Here

Watch the video for “In Your Head” Here

(Toronto, ON – February 20, 2019) – Nilüfer Yanya, London’s 23-year-old “effortlessly smooth new soul star” (The FADER) is sharing the track ‘Tears’ today – the third new track from her debut full-length album Miss Universe.Tears” continues to show off the dynamic cohesion of Nilüfer’s upcoming record while flaunting its poppier side. Miss Universe will be released on March 22nd via ATO Records. Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe featured ‘Tears’ as a World First on his Beats 1 show this afternoon.

‘Tears’ comes accompanied by a lyric video featuring the branding of the shadowy ‘WWAYH’ (WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™) organisation whose darkly funny automated phoneline interludes are peppered throughout the glorious Miss Universe. The mind department of WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™ issued this statement: “Despite previous claims of crying being natural response to stress and regarded as healthy, recent studies have unearthed evidence that proves this claim as untrue. It can also simulate similar responses in others to varying degrees, primarily targeting the vulnerable (infants, children and elderly) which makes it a socially irresponsible behaviour. The Body department would like to add it is also a waste of bodily fluids and self destructive to one’s health hereby deeming the act of crying illegal.”

Upon release in January, “In Your Head” was proclaimed one of NPR’s “20 Best Songs We Heard for January”, a Sunday Times Culture ‘Hottest Track’, one of The Guardian’s ’50 Great Tracks For February’ and landed in The FADER’s ’20 best rock songs right now’playlist – setting the tone for what’s still to come with the release of Miss Universe in March. 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.

2019 started in whirlwind fashion with Nilüfer touring across North America in January and February with Sharon Van Etten, including a stop in Vancouver on Friday. Next, Nilüfer will embark on her biggest U.K., Europe and Turkey headlining tour to date in April. Following that, she will head back to the US for a headlining date at NYC’s Rough Trade on July 23. Tickets for that show will be on-sale this Friday, February 22nd at 12pm EST HERE.

Though she’d been writing songs in her head since she was six, and on the guitar since she was 12, it took a long time for Nilüfer Yanya to work up the courage to show anyone her music. “I knew I wanted to sing, but the idea of actually having to do it was really horrifying,” says the 23-year-old. When she was finally persuaded to do so, by a music teacher in West London where she grew up, she says “it was horrible. I loved it”.

At 18, Nilüfer – who is of Turkish-Irish-Bajan heritage – uploaded a few demos to SoundCloud. Though she’s preternaturally shy, her music – which uniquely blends elements of soul and jazz into intimate pop songs with electronic flourishes and a newly expressed grungy guitar sound – isn’t. And it didn’t take long for it to catch people’s attention. She signed with independent New York label ATO, following three EPs on esteemed london indie label Blue Flowers, and earned a place on the BBC Sound of 2018 longlist. She also supported the likes of The xx, Interpol, Broken Social Scene and Mitski on tour.

Now, Nilüfer is ready to release her debut album, Miss Universe. Though she recorded much of it in the same remote Cornwall studio she used to jam in as a much younger person, it is bigger and more ambitious than anything she has done before. ‘Angels’, with its muted, harmonic riffs, channels ideas “of paranoid thoughts and anxiety” – a theme that runs through the album, not least in its conceptual spoken word interludes which emanate from a fictional health management company WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™. “You sign up, and you pay a fee,” explains Nilüfer of the automated messages, which are littered through the album and are narrated by the titular Miss Universe. “They sort out all of your dietary requirements, and then they move onto medication, and then maybe you can get a better organ or something… and then suddenly it starts to get a bit weird. You’re giving them more of you and to what end?”

See Nilüfer Yanya on tour in 2019:

February 21 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom^

February 22 – Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial^

February 23 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre^

February 25 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery^

February 26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Filmore^

February 28 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park^

March 1 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel^

March 28 – Istanbul, Turkey @ Babylon

April 3 – Glasgow, Scotland @ CCA

April 4 – Manchester, UK @ YES

April 5 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

April 6 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny

April 8 – Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy Leicester University

April 9 – London, UK @ Evolutionary Arts Hackney

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 @ Rough Trade

August 8-12 – Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender

August 15-18 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales

^with Sharon Van Etten

Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe– out 3/22/19 via ATO Records

Nilufer Yanya’s ‘Miss Universe’ Album Cover

NILÜFER YANYA ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM MISS UNIVERSE OUT MARCH 22 ON ATO RECORDS

January 22, 2019 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, Debut Album, In Your Head, Miss Universe, Nilüfer Yanya, North American Tour, Sharon Van Etten

NEW SINGLE + VIDEO “IN YOUR HEAD” OUT NOW

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH SHARON VAN ETTEN BEGINS FEB 6 WITH STOPS IN TORONTO AND VANCOUVER

“London’s most exciting pop artist” -Pitchfork

“Her voice will surprise you, her raw, romantic songs about love and loss will break your heart, and you better get ready to hear more.” -Noisey

“Boldness is warranted when you’ve got a hook as devastating as the one that Nilüfer Yanya repeats” -The New York Times

Watch the video for “In Your Head” HERE

(Toronto, ON – January 22, 2019) – Nilüfer Yanya, London’s 23 year-old “effortlessly smooth new soul star” (The FADER) has today announced her hotly-anticipated debut full length album Miss Universe. The record will be released on March 22 via ATO Records and launches today with the unveiling of Nilüfer’s new single and video “In Your Head“.

The stunning video for ‘In Your Head’ was filmed in the Las Vegas desert by longtime creative collaborator ENERGYFORCE and mirrors the track’s thrilling choruses and frantic energy. Speaking about “In Your Head”, Nilüfer said, “Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me and I get trapped. There’s the things I need disguised as things I think I only want, things I think I’m choosing out of choice not necessity. Sometimes this only becomes clear in retrospect, or maybe it will never become clear. Some people may call that being paranoid. I think that’s what I wrote the song about , but what’s interesting to me, and what I think I was trying to get at, is the illusion of freedom.”

Miss Universe was largely recorded in the same remote Penzance studio she used to jam in with her uncle Joe – a former musician himself – and 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.

2019 is starting in whirlwind fashion with Nilufer touring throughout February with Sharon Van Etten across North America. The tour kicks off in Washington, D.C. on February 6 before hitting several major cities including NYC, LA, Toronto, Vancouver and more. Following that run, Nilüfer will embark on her biggest U.K., Europe and Turkey headline tour to date in April, beginning with a show in Nilüfer’s father’s ancestral home Istanbul. Tickets for all of her upcoming tour dates are available from HERE.

Following her inclusion in the BBC’s influential Sound Of poll in 2018, Nilüfer was recently tipped as an Artist to Watch in 2019 by The Guardian, The Independent, NYLON, and more. The foundations are firmly laid for Nilüfer Yanya’s debut album – and her confirmation as a rare and utterly original British songwriting talent.

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Now, Nilüfer is ready to release her debut album, Miss Universe. Though she recorded much of it in the same remote Cornwall studio she used to jam in as a much younger person, it is bigger and more ambitious than anything she has done before. ‘Angels’, with its muted, harmonic riffs, channels ideas “of paranoid thoughts and anxiety” – a theme that runs through the album, not least in its conceptual spoken word interludes which emanate from a fictional health management company WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH TM. “You sign up, and you pay a fee,” explains Nilüfer of the automated messages, which are littered through the album and are narrated by the titular Miss Universe. “They sort out all of your dietary requirements, and then they move onto medication, and then maybe you can get a better organ or something… and then suddenly it starts to get a bit weird. You’re giving them more of you and to what end?”

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See Nilüfer Yanya on tour in 2019:

February 6 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club^

February 7 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer^

February 8 – Boston, MA @ Royale^

February 9 – New York City, NY @ Beacon Theatre^

February 11 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall^

February 13 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre^

February 14 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall^

February 15 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall^

February 16 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave^

February 18 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre^

February 19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall^