Nilüfer Yanya announces debut LP, touring with Sharon Van Etten (listen to "In Your Head")

January 22, 2019

London soul-pop artist Nilüfer Yanya has announced her debut full-length album, Miss Universe, due out March 22, 2019 via ATO Records. It was co-produced by The Invisible’s Dave Okumu (also her former guitar teacher), John Congleton (who also produced tourmate Sharon Van Etten‘s new album Remind Me Tomorrow), Oli Barton-Wood, Will Archer, M.T. Hadley, and Jazzi Bobbi and Luke Bower, her backing band. See the cover art and tracklist for Miss Universe below.

Nilüfer previously shared the album’s final track “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” and now she’s sharing a second single, “In Your Head,” which you can listen to below. “Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me and I get trapped,” Nilüfer says about the song. “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… 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.”

As mentioned, Nilüfer supports Sharon Van Etten on her upcoming tour, which kicks off on February 6 in Washington DC and stops in NYC for a show at Beacon Theatre on February 9. Tickets for the Beacon show (which also includes a set from Fred Armisen) are on sale now.

After her dates with Sharon, Nilüfer heads overseas for more touring in the spring. See all of her upcoming tour dates below.

Miss Universe Tracklisting:

01 WWAY HEALTH ™
02 In Your Head
03 Paralysed
04 Angels
05 Experience?
06 Paradise
08 Baby Blu
08 Warning
09 Heat Rises
10 Melt
11 “Sparkle” GOD HELP ME
12 Safety Net
13 Tears
14 Monsters Under The Bed
15 The Unordained
16 Give Up Function
17 Heavyweight Champion of the Year

Nilüfer Yanya: 2019 Tour

FEB 06 Washington, DC 9:30 Club *
FEB 07 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer *
FEB 08 Boston, MA Royale *
FEB 09 New York, NY Beacon Theatre *
FEB 11 Toronto, Canada The Danforth Music Hall *
FEB 13 Detroit, MI Majestic Cafe *
FEB 15 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall Chicago *
FEB 18 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre *
FEB 19 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall *
FEB 21 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal Ballroom *
FEB 22 Vancouver, Canada Imperial Vancouver *
FEB 23 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre *
FEB 26 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore *
FEB 28 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park *
MAR 13 Oxford, United Kingdom O2 Academy Oxford
MAR 28 Istanbul, Turkey Babylon
APR 03 Glasgow, United Kingdom CCA
APR 04 Manchester, United Kingdom YES (Pink Room)
APR 05 Leeds, United Kingdom Brudenell Social Club
APR 06 Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Cluny
APR 08 Leicester, United Kingdom The Scholar (O2 Academy Leicester)
APR 09 London, United Kingdom EartH
APR 11 Birmingham, United Kingdom Hare & Hounds
APR 12 Bristol, United Kingdom Thekla
APR 13 Oxford, United Kingdom O2 Academy2 Oxford
APR 14 Brighton, United Kingdom The Haunt
APR 16 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bitterzoet
APR 17 Hamburg, Germany NOCHTWACHE
APR 18 Berlin, Germany Kantine am Berghain
APR 19 Rotterdam, Netherlands Motel Mozaique
APR 21 Wien, Austria Chelsea
APR 22 Munich, Germany Ampere
APR 24 Zurich, Switzerland Exil
APR 25 KÖLN, Germany Blue Shell
APR 26 Paris, France Le Point Ephémère
APR 29 Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode, Belgium Le Botanique
APR 30 Nijmegen, Netherlands Merleyn
MAY 01 Utrecht, Netherlands ACU