My Method Actor

{{Music ratings

| MC = 85/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/my-method-actor/nilufer-yanya|title=My Method Actor by Nilüfer Yanya Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=15 October 2024}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/my-method-actor-mw0004309183|title=My Method Actor – Nilüfer Yanya|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=13 September 2024|last=Donelson|first=Marcy}}

| rev2 = Exclaim!

| rev2score = 8/10{{cite news|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/niluefer-yanya-my-method-actor-album-review-1|title=Nilüfer Yanya Is Caught in a Thrilling Stasis on 'My Method Actor'|work=Exclaim!|date=13 September 2024|access-date=20 March 2022|last=Piekarski|first=Tom}}

| rev4 = The Line of Best Fit

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/nilufer-yanya-my-method-actor-blends-inspiration-and-method|title=Nilüfer Yanya blends inspiration and method on My Method Actor|work=The Line of Best Fit|date=13 September 2024|access-date=12 September 2024|last=Amen|first=John}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/nilufer-yanya-my-method-actor-review-3792911|title=Nilüfer Yanya – 'My Method Actor' review: carefully considered, creative songwriting|work=NME|date=13 September 2024|access-date=13 September 2024|last=Mylrea|first=Hannah}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 8.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nilufer-yanya-my-method-actor/|title=Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor|work=Pitchfork|date=18 September 2024|access-date=18 September 2024|last=Schnipper|first=Matthew}}

| rev8 = Uncut

| rev8score = 8/10{{cite journal|title=Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor|journal=Uncut|issue=299|date=September 2024|last=Anderson|first=Jason|page=36}}

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My Method Actor was met with widespread acclaim reviews from critics. Matthew Schnipper of Pitchfork notes "On her third and best album, My Method Actor, she’s matured, found herself, chilled out—whatever you want to call it, it’s made her music more triumphant, less nervous. It’s an album that has the feel of everyday luxury, a collection of songs so assured that they feel like they always existed, and Yanya simply plucked them out of the air to give to you." John Amen of The Line of Best Fit wrote, "If Painless exudes the magic of an artist discovering new plateaus, My Method Actor is a refinement of those now integrated proclivities".{{Cite web |title=Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor Review - method inspires {{!}} Indie |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/nilufer-yanya-my-method-actor-blends-inspiration-and-method |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=The Line of Best Fit |language=en-US}}

Yanya worked on the album with the producer Wilma Archer, and wrote and recorded it in London, Eastbourne, and Wales. Yanya called the album the "most intense [...] in that respect. Because it's only been us two. We didn't let anyone else into the bubble." The album centres on the theme of "entering a transition between one part of life into another".{{cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2024/06/nilufer-yanya-my-method-actor/|title=Nilüfer Yanya Announces New Album My Method Actor|website=Consequence|last=Fu|first=Eddie|date=10 June 2024|access-date=11 June 2024}}

{{Track listing

| headline = My Method Actor track listing

| all_writing = Nilüfer Yanya and Will Archer

| title1 = Keep on Dancing

| length1 = 2:08

| title2 = Like I Say (I Runaway)

| length2 = 2:57

| title3 = Method Actor

| length3 = 3:51

| title4 = Binding

| length4 = 5:16

| title5 = Mutations

| length5 = 4:16

| title6 = Ready for Sun (Touch)

| length6 = 5:33

| title7 = Call It Love

| length7 = 4:53

| title8 = Faith's Late

| length8 = 4:49

| title9 = Made Out of Memory

| length9 = 3:34

| title10 = Just a Western

| length10 = 4:29

| title11 = Wingspan

| length11 = 2:27

| total_length = 44:13

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• Nilüfer Yanya – lead vocals, design
• Will Archer – production, electric guitar (all tracks); acoustic guitar (tracks 1–7), programming (1, 4), keyboards (1, 9), bass guitar (2, 3), backing vocals (2, 6–8, 10, 11), piano (3, 4, 6, 7), baritone guitar (3, 5), drums (5–7, 9, 10), synthesizer (7, 9), classical guitar (8, 10), field recording (11)
• Matt Colton – mastering, lacquer cut
• Nathan Boddy – mixing
• Ellis Dupuy – drums (track 3)
• Joe Harvey-Whyte – pedal steel guitar (tracks 3–5, 9)
• Clíona Ní Choileáin – cello (tracks 5, 7)
• Dave Lynch – additional vocal engineering (tracks 1–9), drum engineering (3)
• Molly Daniel – photography
• Polly Mercher – make-up, hair
• Tess Herbet – styling
• Jenna Coombs – set styling

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