Yard Act are back to announce their third album, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, out on July 17th via Republic Records. They’ve also shared the lead single, “Redeemer.”
The post-punk band’s new album follows 2024’s Where’s My Utopia? and was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson. The quartet notes in a press release that You’re Gonna Need a Little Music is the first album that they made “as a live band in the same room.” The project features a different lyrical focus from vocalist James Smith, using a more “impressionistic” and observational angle: “I think the album is about multiple realities and how individualism has led us, in the modern world, to question if there even is a shared reality anymore because everyone just believes what they want now,” Smith said.
“Redeemer” definitely feels more outwardly dark than some of Yard Act’s prior offerings, with yelped vocals and pounding, primal drumming from Jay Russell. Smith takes on the anxious perspective of someone fed up with the world but unable to escape it. “Redeemer! You stole the sun/ Now your orbit is the bullshit of the damage done,” he barks in the chorus; eventually, his cry of “Redeemer” is reduced to a croak in the final chorus. Stream the new track below.
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Yard Act will support You’re Gonna Need a Little Music with a North American tour kicking off in San Diego on August 5th; in addition to playing Outside Lands in San Francisco, the group will make stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston. Check out their tour dates below, and get tickets to see Yard Act here.
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<p><em><strong>You’re Gonna Need a Little Music </strong></em><strong>Tracklist:</strong><br />01. Empty Pledges<br />02. New Beginnings<br />03. Tall Tales<br />04. Fiction<br />05. You’re Gonna Need A Little Music<br />06. Cherophobe Rock<br />07. Thrill Of The Chase<br />08. Janey Said<br />09. Redeemer<br />10. Talky Talky People<br />11. Over The Barrel</p>
<p><strong>Yard Act 2026 Tour Dates:</strong><br />06/03 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound<br />06/11 — Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto<br />06/11 — Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock for People<br />06/14 — Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret<br />07/02 — Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter<br />08/05 — San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern<br />08/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom<br />08/08 — San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands<br />08/09 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall<br />08/10 — Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre<br />08/11 — Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl<br />08/13 — Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw<br />08/14 — Washington, DC @ Black Cat<br />08/15 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts<br />08/16 — Boston, MA @ The Sinclair<br />10/01 — Paris, FR @ La Cigale<br />10/02 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique<br />10/03 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg<br />10/05 — Cologne, DE @ Gloria-Theater<br />10/07 — Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich<br />10/08 — Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall<br />10/09 — Stockholm, SE @ Kägelbanan<br />10/10 — Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA<br />10/12 — Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO<br />10/13 — Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory<br />10/14 — Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg<br />10/16 — Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks<br />10/17 — Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali<br />10/18 — Toulouse, FR @ La Cabane<br />10/20 — Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo<br />10/21 — Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava<br />10/23 — Lisbon, PT @ Cineteatro Capitólio<br />11/06 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds<br />11/07 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy<br />11/10 — Newcastle, UK @ NX<br />11/11 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom<br />11/12 — Sheffield, UK @ Octagon Centre<br />11/13 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse<br />11/15 — Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun Hall<br />11/16 — Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy<br />11/17 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City<br />11/18 — Cambridge, UK @ Junction 1<br />11/20 — Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy<br />11/21 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon<br />11/23 — Plymouth, UK @ Plymouth Pavillions<br />11/24 — Southampton, UK @ O2 Guildhall<br />11/26 — London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton</p>
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