Yard Act announce new album & Newcastle shows

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

“YOU’RE GONNA NEED A LITTLE MUSIC” RELEASED 17^TH JULY

LISTEN TO REDEEMER  STREAMING NOW / WATCH VIDEO HERE

+ FULL UK TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR NOVEMBER

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

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Yard Act Live:

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