On 'PAINLESS,' Nilüfer Yanya doesn't play nice
The singer-songwriter's second album is sparing and remarkably tough, weighted by an instrumental sound that matches Yanya's darker impulses and solidifies her status as a bona fide rock star.
Nilüfer Yanya insists she doesn't like confrontation.
"I'll always try to make things be nice, to make it work and look for harmony," she says. "I don't like arguing. I think that's just how I am. But I think it kind of creates dishonesty in myself."
This is the same "non-confrontational" Yanya who enraptured listeners in 2016 with her teenaged debut EP , on which she chillingly dismissed a player "boy" who just won't stop speaking on the smoldering "" The singer-songwriter whose 2017 standout single "," with its steely, "do you like pain, again, again?" chorus, delivered over a guitar riff that played like the tick of a time bomb, solidified her as a disciple of the PJ Harvey.
