Artist:
Yard Act
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Post-Punk Revival
Total Time:
41:43
Record Label:
Republic Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
July 17, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Yard Act
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Post-Punk Revival
Total Time:
41:43
Record Label:
Republic Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
July 17, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Writing together in a studio for the first time, the band hit on a liberated, expansive, and often jubilant third album.
“It was a really joyous time,” Yard Act’s James Smith tells Apple Music of making their third record. “It was everything I imagined doing music for a living would be.”
That had a lot to do with how the Leeds band approached You’re Gonna Need a Little Music. Unlike their Mercury Prize-nominated debut The Overload and its follow-up Where’s My Utopia?—both of which had been made under time pressure, their songs written separately between band members and put together on laptops—You’re Gonna Need a Little Music found Yard Act working in a studio for the first time (their own in Leeds, a product of the success of their first two records). “We could just jam in the room together,” says Smith. “I was in a dream world. It was very freeing.”
You’re Gonna Need a Little Music builds on the ambition of Where’s My Utopia?, itself a reaction against the more self-contained sound of The Overload. “I was starting to feel really trapped by those songs,” says Smith, “and I would never want to be boxed in.” You might hear shades of Beck and Blur (“New Beginnings”), The Prodigy (“Thrill of the Chase”), and even Serge Gainsbourg as Smith experiments with a louche lower register (it works: see the excellent title track or closer “Over the Barrel”). Then there are embraces of everything from disco to funk, jazz, indie, spoken-word storytelling, twinkling pianos, and off-kilter lyricism.
Throughout, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music shifts between raw intensity and buoyant fun, and is the most successful iteration yet, says Smith, of the “polarities” that lie at the heart of Yard Act: their darkness and their “earnestness and optimism.” “The more we’ve done this, the more I feel like I understand who we are,” says Smith. “We’re naturally sounding more and more like ourselves.”
“It was a really joyous time,” Yard Act’s James Smith tells Apple Music of making their third record. “It was everything I imagined doing music for a living would be.”
That had a lot to do with how the Leeds band approached You’re Gonna Need a Little Music. Unlike their Mercury Prize-nominated debut The Overload and its follow-up Where’s My Utopia?—both of which had been made under time pressure, their songs written separately between band members and put together on laptops—You’re Gonna Need a Little Music found Yard Act working in a studio for the first time (their own in Leeds, a product of the success of their first two records). “We could just jam in the room together,” says Smith. “I was in a dream world. It was very freeing.”
You’re Gonna Need a Little Music builds on the ambition of Where’s My Utopia?, itself a reaction against the more self-contained sound of The Overload. “I was starting to feel really trapped by those songs,” says Smith, “and I would never want to be boxed in.” You might hear shades of Beck and Blur (“New Beginnings”), The Prodigy (“Thrill of the Chase”), and even Serge Gainsbourg as Smith experiments with a louche lower register (it works: see the excellent title track or closer “Over the Barrel”). Then there are embraces of everything from disco to funk, jazz, indie, spoken-word storytelling, twinkling pianos, and off-kilter lyricism.
Throughout, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music shifts between raw intensity and buoyant fun, and is the most successful iteration yet, says Smith, of the “polarities” that lie at the heart of Yard Act: their darkness and their “earnestness and optimism.” “The more we’ve done this, the more I feel like I understand who we are,” says Smith. “We’re naturally sounding more and more like ourselves.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Empty Pledges
(04:25)
2 . New Beginnings (03:27)
3 . Tall Tales (03:51)
4 . Fiction (02:40)
5 . You're Gonna Need A Little Music (04:40)
6 . Cherophobe Rock (02:52)
7 . Thrill Of The Chase (02:30)
8 . Janey Said (04:51)
9 . Redeemer (03:59)
10 . Talky Talky People (03:56)
11 .Over The Barrel (04:33)
2 . New Beginnings (03:27)
3 . Tall Tales (03:51)
4 . Fiction (02:40)
5 . You're Gonna Need A Little Music (04:40)
6 . Cherophobe Rock (02:52)
7 . Thrill Of The Chase (02:30)
8 . Janey Said (04:51)
9 . Redeemer (03:59)
10 . Talky Talky People (03:56)
11 .Over The Barrel (04:33)
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