Yard Act – You’re Gonna Need A Little Music
★★★★
ISLAND
The sleeve of Yard Act’s new LP shows a pedestrian about to be flattened by a falling piano, and a sense of impending doom – or an imminent backlash – hangs over these songs. “Do you feel like an impostor for every new level you ascend to, too?” asks James Smith on opener Empty Pledges.
But if it’s a record that grapples à la Pulp’s This Is Hardcore with the downside of success, You’re Gonna Need A Little Music is further testament to Smith’s lending library smarts and the band’s Happy Mondays-via-Franz Ferdinand knack for indie-disco bangers, with Over The Barrel and mournful Streets shuffle Janey Said worthy additions to the canon. “I could kill your mood with all this wisdom,” Smith reflects on the elegantly crumpled Talky Talky People, but Yard Act wear their learning wisely. The Yeah Yeah Noh of their age, and that’s a compliment.
You’re Gonna Need A Little Music is out July 17 on Island.
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Track listing:
Empty Pledges
New Beginnings
Tall Tales
Fiction
You’re Gonna Need A Little Music
Cherophobe Rock
Thrill Of The Chase
Janey Said
Redeemer
Talky Talky People
Over The Barrel
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