YARD ACT – Swaggery Mavericks Drop Tenebrous Banger ‘REDEEMER’ From Upcoming 3rd Album
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7 May 2026
Credit: YA
Band: YARD ACT
Who: British post-punk outfit from Leeds, fronted by poetic wordsmith
James Smith, who catapulted themselves to the top of indie world with
2 splendid albums, The Overload (2022) and Where’s My Utopia (2024).
New single: REDEEMER
First shared cut from their upcoming, 3rd full-length,
baptized You”re Gonna Need A Little Music.
It’s the first time the band have made an album live in the same room.
James Smith: “The first two records were both laptop records essentially.
This album was written in uninterrupted five month period of creativity. We
went on to produce 40 or 50 songs. It felt like freedom. It felt like everything
I’d wanted from being in a band”.
TUTV: Redeemer is a mighty, slow-mo banger, spiked with ferocious guitar riffage
and a familiar shanty chorus. More tenebrous and jaggeder than their previous stuff.
