{"id":2505039,"date":"2026-07-16T19:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2505039"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:36:53","slug":"loathing-and-loveable-yard-act-return-with-new-album-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/loathing-and-loveable-yard-act-return-with-new-album-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music\/","title":{"rendered":"LOATHING AND LOVEABLE | YARD ACT RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM \u2018YOU\u2019RE GONNA NEED A LITTLE MUSIC\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALBUM REVIEW | YARD ACT \u2013 YOU\u2019RE GONNA NEED A LITTLE MUSIC by Gracie Erskine<\/h2>\n

]Two years on since their sophomore album Where\u2019s My Utopia?<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, everyone\u2019s favourite cynics Yard Act<\/strong>, return with their latest record You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an immediate \u201cis this thing on?<\/em>\u201d kind of moment with opener \u2018Empty Pledges\u2019<\/strong><\/em>. That\u2019s until you\u2019re met with an industrial sludge, laying the foundation for the perpetual misery that this track is going to warp itself around. The observational despair is harnessed within the wit and quick retorts of frontman and lyricist\u00a0James Smith<\/strong>. It\u2019s euphorically dismal in its defensive loathing, and really stabs into your own inner musings that you never realised you had, until you did. Arguably, the worst part about the track is not being able to pick what the \u2018best\u2019 lyric is, as so many knives are thrown at you, but \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with Leeds?<\/em>\u201cis the most home-hitting of the lot \u2013 surely? <\/p>\n

Musically loitering is that kind of sexily depressive post-punk brooding shoegaze hybrid.\u00a0\u00a0The track itself feels endless to commentary, and frankly deserves itself on 800 words on its pure brilliance. It\u2019s that throttling grip that shakes you, letting you know there\u2019s a more matured\u00a0Yard Act\u00a0on the table \u2013 whether you like it or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pulling influences like a bull in a record shop (that\u2019s the saying, right?), identity remains so autochthonous to the band. From the Strokes<\/strong>-esque piercing guitar of \u2018New Beginnings<\/em>\u2019 <\/strong>to the\u00a0Talking Heads<\/strong> style recital in \u2018Fiction<\/em>\u2019<\/strong>. Lyrically a humbled grandeur, \u2018Tall Tales<\/em>\u2019<\/strong> recollects and swirls like a whiskey glass in a jazz bar, except it\u2019s more a stout in a working men\u2019s club and take that in most positive way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There are some more emotionally blithe moments on the record, taking shape in the more care-free indie format of short and sweet \u2018Cherophobe Rock\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Title track \u2018You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em>\u2019<\/strong> twinkles in a little toe-tapping piano funk and breathlessly 90\u2019s perfume advert vocal delivery, it\u2019s almost seductive and the most escapist feel, wandering through the travels of the story, vanishing into the chorus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Naturally, \u2018Janey Said<\/em>\u2019<\/strong> slips back into melancholia, interpersonal spoken word rallying though a solemn date. It\u2019s self-referential irony \u201cI\u2019ll probably get a good song outta this<\/em>\u201d (and that much is true), lines musically parallel to the lyrics like a laugh track echoing through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyrically, the album sits in the twilight zone of irony, never really knowing true sincerity, but that juxtaposition makes it feel all the more real. Storytelling overridden by musings and the most amicable self-obsessive wit. You can imagine the pen having a lie down whilst it sits back and chuckles at itself.<\/p>\n

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Though it may appear like the album is crushing you from the inside out, \u2018Over The Barrel\u2019 <\/strong><\/em>does bring you back, well, over. Back into somewhere where the chords go a little more major, and you climb your way back up the scale.\u00a0That\u2019s obviously before you\u2019re contorted into a musical frenzy of an outro met with the most sinister choir, because what are you if not grounded, eh?<\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna need a little musi<\/em>c<\/strong>, well yes, as you\u2019re confronted with every musing, every emotion and everything you\u2019d want out of a new Yard Ac<\/strong>t album.\u00a0Their tertiary record if the most fulfilling to date, executing every aspect of mundanity with their most harmonious post-punk concoction and of course, the most piercing sharpness.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re Gonna Need A Little Music<\/em> by Yard Act is out Friday 17th July via Island Records \u2013 Buy\/Listen HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Catch the band of their intimate UK record store tour this week before the band hit the road for a full tour in November. Tickets available NOW.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Record Store Tour<\/h4>\n

16th July \u2013 La Belle Angele, Edinburgh (in association with Assai Records)<\/p>\n

17th July \u2013 Baltic, Liverpool (in association with Jacaranda Records)<\/p>\n

19th July \u2013 Rough Trade East, London<\/p>\n

21st July \u2013 Rough Trade, Nottingham<\/p>\n

22nd July \u2013 Rough Trade, Bristol<\/p>\n

24th July \u2013 Chalk, Brighton (in association with Resident Records)<\/p>\n

UK Tour Dates<\/h4>\n

6th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Academy, Leeds<\/p>\n

7th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Academy, Leeds\u00a0<\/p>\n

10th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 NX, Newcastle\u00a0<\/p>\n

11th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow\u00a0<\/p>\n

12th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Octagon Centre, Sheffield<\/p>\n

13th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester<\/p>\n

15th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton\u00a0<\/p>\n

16th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Academy, Leicester\u00a0<\/p>\n

17th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Rock City, Nottingham\u00a0<\/p>\n

18th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Junction 1, Cambridge\u00a0<\/p>\n

20th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Academy, Oxford\u00a0<\/p>\n

21st<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Bristol Beacon, Bristol\u00a0<\/p>\n

23rd<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 Plymouth Arena, Plymouth\u00a0<\/p>\n

24th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Guildhall, Southampton\u00a0<\/p>\n

26th<\/sup>\u00a0November \u2013 O2 Academy Brixton, London<\/p>\n

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