Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Dec 10, 2024With her first two albums, particularly 2022’s Painless, Nilüfer Yanya created an immersive, moody vibe and delivered some of the most irresistible guitar pop this side of Porches. Yanya levels up on both counts on her third studio album, My Method Actor, and intensifies her songwriting game to boot.
-
Sep 11, 2024It is considered and genuinely moving. It spotlights the best aspects of Nilüfer Yanya’s creative techniques and allows them to build and blossom. Quite plainly, it contains a prowess which stakes a claim for Yanya as one of the most powerful voices in British rock music today.
-
Sep 18, 2024This is the first album where Yanya has worked with only one producer, and having a steady collaborator gives the album a cohesion you may not have noticed the previous two didn’t have. The sound is unhurried and lush, with Yanya’s voice confidently tender.
-
Sep 25, 2024Whilst her talent has been evident in previous releases, there’s something in ‘My Method Actor’ that sees her stand taller, more certain. Yanya’s movements feel deliberate, smooth. An effortless transition from one song to the next, as if telling a story passed on to her, that she now gifts to you.
-
Sep 18, 2024If Painless exudes the magic of an artist discovering new plateaus, My Method Actor is a refinement of those now integrated proclivities.
-
Sep 13, 2024There's a sophistication to the vocal phrasing on "Call It Love" and "Made Out of Memory," a newfound confidence that alone is enough to propel My Method Actor to heights not frequently reached on past albums.
-
Sep 13, 2024Those who want instant gratification and singalong anthems will be disappointed – this is more of an album to immerse yourself in, and lose yourself to, and also confirms that Nilüfer Yanya is one of this country’s most exciting talents.
-
Sep 13, 2024An honest, innovative collection that bolsters her reputation as a stellar songwriter, Yanya “undiluted” makes for an absorbing listen.
-
Sep 13, 2024My Method Actor is a soft-spoken, probing outing for Yanya, one whose dreamy web of acoustic instruments and electronic accents persistently allures while scrutinizing.
-
Sep 11, 2024For all the dark corners of her ever-changing self she avidly explores, the intrinsic brightness and irrepressible energies in her songwriting continue to enrich the experience of accompanying her. [Sep 2024, p.31]
-
Sep 11, 2024An album that is brimming with curiosity and exploration – an album on which, from the off, Nilüfer strives to make an excavation of the core of who she is. More expansive and undiluted than its predecessors, she seems to find room to explore both sonically and lyrically.
-
Sep 11, 2024The production is pristine, while none of her lo-fi charm has been lost. My Method Actor is a triumph on all counts.
-
Sep 23, 2024My Method Actor is very likely an aimless sandbox, one which leads to some very cool songs, and others there's no chance we'll remember once we're eight albums deep into Nilüfer Yanya's career.
Awards & Rankings
There are no user reviews yet.