YARD ACT ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM DETAILS + SHARES FIRST SINGLE, REDEEMER

"You're Gonna Need a Little Music" coming 17th July

Listen to Redeemer NOW / Watch Video Here. You can also follow full UK tour announced for November.

Yard Act are pleased to share details of their third studio album, “You’re Gonna Need A Little Music”. The record is released on 17th July via Island Records.

To coincide with the announcement, the band have shared the first new music to be lifted from the record. Redeemer is streaming now, and video is here

The album was recorded between the band’s hometown of Leeds and in Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St Vincent).

Simultaneously the most dynamic, collaborative, energised work they’ve laid to tape, but also containing some of the darkest, most cynical and truly questioning moments they’ve concocted too, You’re Gonna Need A Little Music picks up their tale and examines the findings more unsparingly than ever.

Weirdly, for a band so associated with incendiary live shows and constant touring, their third LP marks the first time that the quartet have ever made an album together, as a live band in the same room.

You're Gonna Need a Little Music Poster Image. Photo Credit: James Winstanley

“The first two records were both laptop records essentially,” says Smith. The Overload was written alongside Needham before the band had fully formed; its follow-up, Where’s My Utopia?, was carved out in snatches of time on tour buses and hotel rooms, amongst a relentless schedule of “slinging [all our gear] in the rehearsal space, going back home, and then a week later piling it back into a van again.”

For the first time in a long time, Yard Act were able to settle into an “uninterrupted five month period” of creativity, crafting “40 or 50 songs” and allowing themselves to follow their ideas with no external pressure. “It felt like freedom,” says Smith. “It felt like everything I’d wanted from being in a band”

The band will spend much of this year out on the road, kicking off with European dates in June before heading to North America throughout August, and back to Europe in October. A slew of new UK headline dates are shared today throughout November, in addition to the three dates – Leeds, Manchester, London – that are already on sale.

Fans pre-ordering the new album by 10:00am BST on Tuesday 12th May, will receive first access to tickets for the new UK live dates. A pre-sale will commence at 10:00am BST on Wednesday 13th May followed by general sale from 10:00am BST on Friday 15th May.

You’re Gonna Need A Little Music follows the band’s UK Top 5 charting Where’s My Utopia? in 2024, and their Mercury Prize nominated 2022 debut, The Overload.

Album Tracklisting: 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

Pre-order You’re Gonna Need A Little Music now!

Yard Act Live:

13th June	Primavera Sound Porto, Porto
14th June	Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek
2nd July	Rock Werchter, Werchter
5th August	Belly Up, Solana Beach
6th August	Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles
7th August	Outside Lands, San Francisco
9th August	Revolution Hall, Portland
10th August	Neptune Theatre, Seattle
11th August	The Pearl, Vancouver
13th August	Warsaw, Brooklyn
14th August	Black Cat, Washington
15th August	Underground Arts, Philadelphia
16th August	The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA
1st October	La Cigale, Paris
2nd October	Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
3rd October	Tivoliredenburg Ronda, Utrecht
5th October	Gloria, Cologne
7th October	Uebel & Gefährlich
8th October	Rockefeller, Oslo
9th October	Kagelbanan, Stockholm
10th October	Vega Main Hall, Copenhagen
12th October	Niebo, Warsaw
13th October	MeetFactory, Prague
14th October	Festival Kreuzberg, Berlin
16th October	Les Docks, Zurich
17th October	Magazzini Generali, Milan
19th October	La Cabane, Toulouse
20th October	Apolo, Barcelona
21st October	Teatro Eslava, Madrid
23rd October	Capitolio, Lisbon
6th November	O2 Academy, Leeds
7th November	O2 Academy, Leeds *New Date*
10th November	NX, Newcastle *New Date*
11th November	Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow *New Date*
12th November	Octagon Centre, Sheffield *New Date*
13th November	O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
15th November	Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton *New Date*
16th November	O2 Academy, Leicester *New Date*
17th November	Rock City, Nottingham *New Date*
18th November	Junction 1, Cambridge *New Date*
20th November	O2 Academy, Oxford *New Date*
21st November	Bristol Beacon, Bristol *New Date*
23rd November	Plymouth Arena, Plymouth *New Date*
24th November	O2 Guildhall, Southampton *New Date*
26th November	O2 Academy Brixton, London