{"id":2405867,"date":"2026-05-07T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2405867"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:39:03","slug":"yard-act-to-return-with-new-album-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yard-act-to-return-with-new-album-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Act to return with new album, You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em> follows the post-punk band&#8217;s 2024 album, <em>Where\u2019s My Utopia?, <\/em>and their 2022 debut, <em>The Overload<\/em>. The new record is said to see them at their most dynamic, collaborative, and energised, with the tracks highlighting some of their darker and more cynical moments, with &#8220;Redeemer&#8221; arriving today as the first preview. <\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em> was recorded between the band&#8217;s hometown of Leeds and in Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St Vincent). The album marks the first time that the band have ever made an album together as a live band in one room, as vocalist James Smith describes Yard Act&#8217;s previous two albums as &#8220;laptop albums&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The record is a product of the band having five months with no interruptions or external pressures, giving them space to write upwards of fifty songs that were narrowed down to a final tracklist of eleven. \u201cIt felt like freedom,\u201d Smith says of the process. \u201cIt felt like everything I\u2019d wanted from being in a band\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><em>You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em> artwork<\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"mb-8 \">\n<div class=\"relative \" style=\" padding-top: 100%\">\n            \n        <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h3><em>You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em> tracklist<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Empty Pledges&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;New Beginnings&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Tall Tales&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Fiction&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Cherophobe Rock&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Thrill Of The Chase&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Janey Said&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Redeemer&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Talky Talky People&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Over The Barrel&#8221;<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thelineofbestfit.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music follows the post-punk band&#8217;s 2024 album, Where\u2019s My Utopia?, and their 2022 debut, The Overload. The new record is said to see them at their most dynamic, collaborative, and energised, with the tracks highlighting some of their darker and more cynical moments, with &#8220;Redeemer&#8221; arriving today as the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2405868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Yard-Act-to-return-with-new-album-Youre-Gonna-Need.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405869,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405867\/revisions\/2405869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}