Following on from last year's "Heavyweight Champion Of The World", 23-year-old Nilüfer Yanya has kicked off her new year with news of her debut album.
To announce her first album, the hotly-tipped singer/songwriter has shared lead single "In Your Head". Explaining the track in more detail, Yanya offers, "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 features 17 tracks, and was largely recorded in a remote Penzance studio where she used to jam in with her uncle Joe. She's even recruited her old guitar teacher Dave Okumu (The Invisible's) as a co-producer alongside her live bandmates, and producers John Congleton, Oli Barton-Wood, Will Archer, and M.T. Hadley.
Tracklist:
- WWAY HEALTH ™
- In Your Head
- Paralysed
- Angels
- Experience?
- Paradise
- Baby Blu
- Warning
- Heat Rises
- Melt
- “Sparkle” GOD HELP ME
- Safety Net
- Tears
- Monsters Under The Bed
- The Unordained
- Give Up Function
- Heavyweight Champion of the Year
