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Yard Act<\/a> have announced their next album, You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music, <\/em>with the thumping lead single, \u2018Redeemer\u2019.<\/p>\n The post-punk band will follow up their last album, 2024\u2019s\u00a0Where\u2019s My Utopia?,\u00a0<\/em>and their 2022 debut,\u00a0The Overload<\/em>, with their third LP, recorded between their hometown of Leeds and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Yard Act have collaborated with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen on You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em>, known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, Beck, and St Vincent<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new project promises to showcase their most dynamic, collaborative, energised work, alongside \u201csome of the darkest, most cynical and truly questioning moments<\/a> they\u2019ve concocted too\u201d.<\/p>\n Lead vocalist James Smith has explained that this is their first-ever non-laptop record, as it was recorded over an \u201cuninterrupted five-month period\u201d of creativity. \u201cIt felt like everything I\u2019d wanted from being in a band,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The new track, \u2018Redeemer\u2019, boasts a darker tone, with a thumping bass that introduces Smith\u2019s snotty, spitting vocals as he begins, \u201cYou envy the freak, I can see it in your eyes, No one is happy with this arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n The band will kick off their celebration with European dates in June before heading to North America throughout August, and back to Europe in October.<\/p>\n Yard Act also announced a slew of new UK dates, kicking off on November 6th at Leeds O2 Academy and reaching the likes of Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Leicester, Bristol, and more. The live dates will end with a final night at O2 Academy Brixton in London on November 26th.<\/p>\n