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Painless
Studio album by Nilüfer Yanya
Released	4 March 2022 (2022-03-04)
Studio	Press Play Riverfish
Genre	Indie rock indie pop
Length	46:27
Label	ATO
Producer	Will Archer Jazzi Bobbi Bullion Andrew Sarlo
Nilüfer Yanya chronology
Inside Out (2021) Painless (2022) My Method Actor (2024)
Singles from Painless
"Stabilise" Released: 9 November 2021 "Midnight Sun" Released: 19 January 2022 "Anotherlife" Released: 16 February 2022 "The Dealer" Released: 28 February 2022

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

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	A−
Exclaim!	8/10
The Guardian
The Independent
The Line of Best Fit	8/10
NME
Pitchfork	8.4/10
The Telegraph
Uncut	8/10

Painless was met with widespread acclaim reviews from critics. Laura Snapes of Pitchfork opined 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

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• 2022 albums
• Albums produced by Wilma Archer
• ATO Records albums
• Nilüfer Yanya albums