Nilüfer Yanya’s 2019 debut album, Miss Universe, was a thrilling mess of ideas. It came bound together by a concept satirising the wellness industry – fake adverts between tracks, press releases that purported to be communiques from a company called Wway Health – that was less interesting than the music it contained. Then again, you could see why Yanya thought the music needed tying together somehow. Its contents jumped from ragged alt-rock to radio-friendly pop to lo-fi takes on 80s soft rock: there were traces of house music alongside cathartic old-fashioned indie, jagged guitars co-existed with the smooth sound of the saxophone, played by her impressively named foil Jazzi Bobbi.
