Painless (album)

Painless is the second studio album by English singer Nilüfer Yanya. It was released on 4 March 2022 on ATO Records.

Critical reception

Painless was met with widespread acclaim reviews from critics. Pitchfork designated the album "Best New Music", with writer Laura Snapes opining that "Painless excels at a kind of subtle disclosure, relying less on power than it does texture and immaculately sparing detail." Chris Taylor of Line of Best Fit wrote, "crunchy, ethereal, and odd in its harsh beauty, Painless is a record of contradictions that Yanya spectacularly weaves together." In a five-star review The Telegraph proclaimed that the album "should rubber stamp Nilüfer Yanya as a generational star".

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

• Nilüfer Yanya – lead vocals (all tracks), electric guitar (tracks 2, 9), guitars (10–12)
• Will Archer – electric guitar (tracks 1, 3–7, 9), acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 8), bass guitar (1, 4, 5, 8), piano (3), backing vocals (5, 8)
• Ellis Dupuy – drums (tracks 1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
• Ben Reed – bass guitar (tracks 2, 3, 12)
• Dom Pusey – clarinet (track 3)
• Jazzi Bobbi – vocals (track 10)

Technical

• Matt Colton – mastering (tracks 1–12, 18)
• Kevin Tuffy – mastering (tracks 13–17)
• Nathan Boddy – mixing (tracks 1–12)
• Will Archer – mixing (tracks 13–16), engineering (1, 3–8), additional engineering (9)
• Tom A.D. Fuller – mixing (track 18)
• Bullion – engineering (tracks 2, 12)
• Joe Dworniak – engineering (track 9), additional engineering (1, 3–8, 11)
• Jazzi Bobbi – engineering (track 10)
• Andrew Sarlo – engineering (track 11)
• Oli Barton Wood – engineering (tracks 13–15)
• Lilian Nuthall – mixing assistance
• Andy Ramsay – additional engineering (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 11)
• Dom Kirtley – additional engineering (10)
• M T Hadley – additional vocal engineering (11)

Visuals

• Molly Daniel – photography
• Nilüfer Yanya – photography, album artwork design
• Elif Yanya – paintings
• Lauren Harewood – additional font design

Charts

References