Creating a fusion of soulful tunes with jazz influences and using space as an important component,
Nilüfer Yanya is distinctly different to everyone else making their way up the musical ladder. She doesn't want to be one of those who throws everything at you in the hope it'll stick. Every note is planned out to create intricately woven, delicate instrumentation to pair with her nonchalant, yet crushingly beautiful, vocals.
Having been slowly releasing singles and EPs over the last couple of years, making it on to the coveted BBC Sound of 2018 list, and starting to tour like it's nobodies business, it's now all leading to a full-length effort - though it's slightly different to how she's used to working. Especially considering some of those previous tracks were written a couple of years before ever being released.
The relief in her voice is evident and no surprise really. It was only last year that she was able to quit her job, and even now her calendar is filling up mighty quickly. There's an upcoming headline tour in May, a potential second trip across the pond - after her first couple of shows over there in September of last year - as well as festival season.
But, going back to her newly discovered freedom of working, she continues. "It's really exciting. It feels like the natural to way to want to work, so it's nice that I've got to this point now where I can do that."
Building herself up to this point, especially as a solo artist, was, she says "daunting". But the idea that the pressure is on even more now that she has something to fight for hasn't escaped her. In fact, it's made her more aware of the gift that comes from being a new artist discovering yourself away from prying eyes.
