My Method Actor

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".^[4]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.1/10[5]
Metacritic	85/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Clash	8/10[8]
Exclaim!	8/10[9]
The Line of Best Fit	8/10[10]
MusicOMH	[11]
NME	[12]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[13]
The Skinny	[14]
Uncut	8/10[15]
Under the Radar	9/10[16]

My Method Actor was met with widespread acclaim reviews from critics.^[6] 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".^[17]