{"id":70515,"date":"2019-04-18T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=70515"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:36:08","slug":"nilufer-yanya-miss-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2019\/04\/18\/nilufer-yanya-miss-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nil\u00fcfer Yanya: Miss Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-70516\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NiluferYanya_MissUniverse_opt.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NiluferYanya_MissUniverse_opt.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NiluferYanya_MissUniverse_opt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NiluferYanya_MissUniverse_opt-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>In the past two years, British artist Nil\u00fcfer Yanya has released two different EP&#8217;s, <em>Plant Feed<\/em> and <em>Small Crimes<\/em>. She continues her \u201ccool girl\u201d aesthetic in her debut album<em> Miss Universe<\/em>, which is a concept album that switches between elevator music with omniscient, fuzzy voiceovers and some seriously cool jams, all revolving around relatable feelings of loneliness and defeat.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of variation in style between all the different tracks on Miss Universe, which does a lot to show Yanya\u2019s artistic range. \u201cIn Your Head\u201d is a gritty yet short rock bit, which segues right into \u201cParalyzed,\u201d where the instrumentation drops down to just Yanya, clean plucked guitars, and Latin-ish drumset. Halfway through the album we lose a lot of the harsher guitar sounds and settle into a more spacious soundscape yet with texturally more complex rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety Net\u201d is likely the strongest track of this album. It features Yanya&#8217;s honest lyrics, rich vocals, a very present groove in the bass and drums, and lots of sparkly synthesizer. This is really where Yanya excels as an artist, \u201cSafety Net\u201d makes great use of synth wave and 80\u2019s New Wave aesthetics and differentiates her from American female solo artists.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this album as a whole is equal to the sum of its parts: not only are there some awesome tracks that you\u2019ll want to turn up the volume for on the radio, but Yanya\u2019s abstract yet deeply profound narrations throughout (under the name WWAY HEALTH\u2122) really tie together mostly absolute songs into a more programmatic idea. This album appeals to most tastes but still hits all of the right notes.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Mitski, Sharon Van Etten, Laura Stevenson<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: (2) In Your Head, (3) Paralyzed, (4) Angels, (12) Safety Net, (13) Tears<br \/>\nDo Not Play: Clean<br \/>\nWritten by Sasha Arteaga on 04\/16\/2019 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanya&#8217;s debut concept album takes listeners away to a health goth resort of her design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21324,"featured_media":70516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[8345,8346,8344,8239],"class_list":["post-70515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-british","tag-miss-universe","tag-nilufer-yanya","tag-sasha-arteaga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NiluferYanya_MissUniverse_opt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}