Album · Nilufer Yanya
PAINLESS by Nilufer Yanya
PAINLESS is an album by Nilufer Yanya, released in 2022. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “stabilise”, on 3 lists with a best position of #27.
PAINLESS, Nilüfer Yanya's second album, arrived on ATO Records on 4 March 2022, and it finds the London singer and guitarist trading flash for texture. Wilma Archer produced, and the record glides between indie rock and indie pop: wiry, looping guitar lines, drums that tick and skitter, and Yanya's voice staying low and level while the songs tense up around her. "stabilise" is the restless one, all nervous motion and forward pull.
This is the artist who started out posting demos to SoundCloud in 2014 and turned down a manufactured girl-group offer to build her own sound, and PAINLESS plays like the payoff for that stubbornness. Critics agreed: Pitchfork tagged it Best New Music, and The Telegraph handed it five stars.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from PAINLESS on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stabilise | 3 | #27 | – | 2022–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.