Nilüfer Yanya has announced that her debut album, titled Miss Universe, is finally on the horizon. The record is out in full on March 22, but ahead of that, Yanya is offering a bit of what to expect with a ridiculously catchy new single "In Your Head" that's equal parts neurotic, self assured and headbang inducing. Accompanying the track is an eye popping Vegas rendezvous of a music video, directed by ENERGYFORCE.
"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," said Yanya in a press release. "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.”
Watch the "In Your Head" clip below, and peep Yanya's upcoming tour dates. Miss Universe is out March 22 via ATO Records.
Nilüfer Yanya 2019 tour dates:
February 6 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club^
February 7 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer^
February 8 - Boston, MA @ Royale^
February 9 - New York City, NY @ Beacon Theatre^
February 11 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall^
February 13 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre^
February 14 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall^
February 15 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall^
February 16 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave^
February 18 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre^
February 19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall^
February 21 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom^
February 22 - Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial^
February 23 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre^
February 25 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery^
February 26 - San Francisco, CA @ The Filmore^
February 28 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park^
March 1 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel^
March 28 - Istanbul, Turkey @ Babylon
April 3 - Glasgow, Scotland @ CCA
April 4 - Manchester, UK @ YES
April 5 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
April 6 - Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
April 8 - Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy Leicester University
April 9 - London, UK @ Evolutionary Arts Hackney
April 11 - Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
April 12 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
April 13 - Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
April 14 - Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
April 16 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
April 17 - Hamburg, GER @ Nochtwache
April 18 - Berlin, GER @ Kantine am Berghain
April 19 - Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Motel Mozaique
April 21 - Vienna, Austria @ Chelsea Club
April 22 - Munich, GER @ Ampere
April 24 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Exil
April 25 - Koln, GER @ Blue Shell
April 26 - Paris, FRA @ Le Point Ephemere
April 29 - Brussels, BEL @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival
April 30 - Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merleyn
May 1 - Utrecht, Holland @ ACU
June 1 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
August 8-12 - Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender
^with Sharon Van Etten