Yard Act are back to announce their third album, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, out on July 17th via Republic Records. They’ve also shared the lead single, “Redeemer.”
The post-punk band’s new album follows 2024’s Where’s My Utopia? and was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson. The quartet notes in a press release that You’re Gonna Need a Little Music is the first album that they made “as a live band in the same room.” The project features a different lyrical focus from vocalist James Smith, using a more “impressionistic” and observational angle: “I think the album is about multiple realities and how individualism has led us, in the modern world, to question if there even is a shared reality anymore because everyone just believes what they want now,” Smith said.
“Redeemer” definitely feels more outwardly dark than some of Yard Act’s prior offerings, with yelped vocals and pounding, primal drumming from Jay Russell. Smith takes on the anxious perspective of someone fed up with the world but unable to escape it. “Redeemer! You stole the sun/ Now your orbit is the bullshit of the damage done,” he barks in the chorus; eventually, his cry of “Redeemer” is reduced to a croak in the final chorus. Stream the new track below.
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Yard Act will support You’re Gonna Need a Little Music with a North American tour kicking off in San Diego on August 5th; in addition to playing Outside Lands in San Francisco, the group will make stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston. Check out their tour dates below, and get tickets to see Yard Act here.
You’re Gonna Need a Little Music Artwork:
You’re Gonna Need a Little Music Tracklist:
01. Empty Pledges
02. New Beginnings
03. Tall Tales
04. Fiction
05. You’re Gonna Need A Little Music
06. Cherophobe Rock
07. Thrill Of The Chase
08. Janey Said
09. Redeemer
10. Talky Talky People
11. Over The Barrel
Yard Act 2026 Tour Dates:
06/03 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/11 — Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto
06/11 — Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock for People
06/14 — Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret
07/02 — Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
08/05 — San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
08/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
08/08 — San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
08/09 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
08/10 — Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
08/11 — Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
08/13 — Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
08/14 — Washington, DC @ Black Cat
08/15 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
08/16 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
10/01 — Paris, FR @ La Cigale
10/02 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
10/03 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
10/05 — Cologne, DE @ Gloria-Theater
10/07 — Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich
10/08 — Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall
10/09 — Stockholm, SE @ Kägelbanan
10/10 — Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA
10/12 — Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO
10/13 — Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
10/14 — Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
10/16 — Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks
10/17 — Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali
10/18 — Toulouse, FR @ La Cabane
10/20 — Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo
10/21 — Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava
10/23 — Lisbon, PT @ Cineteatro Capitólio
11/06 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
11/07 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
11/10 — Newcastle, UK @ NX
11/11 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
11/12 — Sheffield, UK @ Octagon Centre
11/13 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
11/15 — Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun Hall
11/16 — Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy
11/17 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
11/18 — Cambridge, UK @ Junction 1
11/20 — Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy
11/21 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
11/23 — Plymouth, UK @ Plymouth Pavillions
11/24 — Southampton, UK @ O2 Guildhall
11/26 — London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
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