{"product_id":"yard-act-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music","title":"Yard Act - You're Gonna Need A Little Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpected Release 17th July 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince their beginning, breaking through as a smart, witty new force within the British guitar music landscape back in the dark days of the pandemic, Yard Act have been wrangling with the knotty complexities of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir Mercury Prize-nominated 2022 debut The Overload span wry, winking tales of  capitalism and the strive for success, wrapped in the sort of propulsive, serrated riffs that quickly saw them labelled as post-punk’s new darlings. With its Top Five-placing 2024 follow-up Where’s My Utopia?, the band - vocalist James Smith, bassist Ryan Needham, guitarist Sam Shipstone and drummer Jay Russell - blasted both of those conceits apart, creating a musically-exploratory and diverse record that worked to unpick and examine the very notion of ambition and fulfilment; of 'what happens next’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journey of Smith’s lyrics across each of their albums, Shipstone muses, has always been quite Faustian: “It’s someone who’s seeking a goal, and then makes a pact with the devil to get the goods they want, but when they get them they’re corrupted so they get the rewards but also this bitterness too.” “And how does Faust end?” questions Needham. “Oh, not well…” If this sounds like a macabre place to root the objectively excellent third album from one of the country’s most celebrated bands of the last decade, then it’s also crucial to understanding Yard Act’s newest - and best - record yet, You’re Gonna Need A Little Music. 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, it picks up their tale and examines the findings more unsparingly than ever. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt feels appropriate that, in order to interrogate these existential subjects, the writing and recording of You’re Gonna Need A Little Music involved the four musicians coming together and strengthening their own core unit more 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 results speak for themselves. Recorded between Leeds and Glendale, Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St. Vincent), You’re Gonna Need A Little Music rings with the chemistry and energy of a band absolutely locked in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe destination might still be unknown, but the journey is unequivocally Yard Act’s finest yet. Maybe Faust didn’t have the ending all worked out after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDinked Edition 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e● Red with black splatter vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e● Alternative sleeve artwork\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e● Machine-numbered edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e● Limited pressing of 1,500\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yard Act","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":45830410502330,"sku":"5759054","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":45830410535098,"sku":"5759051","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Indies Red \u0026 Black Marble LP","offer_id":45830410567866,"sku":"5759319","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dinked Edition LP","offer_id":45830410600634,"sku":"5759056","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/1453\/5098\/files\/Standardalbumsleeve_1_0002eda0-30d5-40a5-91a9-f85951940def.jpg?v=1778075718","url":"https:\/\/www.sound-knowledge.co.uk\/products\/yard-act-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music","provider":"Sound Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}