Nilüfer Yanya shares final album preview, “Just a Western”

Ahead of the release of her album, My Method Actor, Nilüfer Yanya shares her new single and music video “Just a Western”. The single comes alongside a video shot by Molly Daniel featuring Nilüfer against the dry Spanish desert landscape. Speaking on the track’s tone Nilüfer shares, “The melody feels freeing to me, but the lyrics are ‘there’s no way in, no way out’ and the concept is about facing your fate. I don’t know if I believe in fate but it feels real in the song.”

On the forthcoming album songs bloomed into being in unexpected ways helping Yanya make sense of her world and the ways it’s changing as she enters her late twenties and grapples with what it means to be an established musician. “For me, writing is definitely problem-solving - in the way they say that dreaming is like problem-solving. You're like, oh, that sounds good. That looks good. That makes sense. But you don't really know why. You're kind of using that part of your creative brain that doesn't have to make sense.”