Yard Act - You're Gonna Need A Little Music

Released 17th July 2026

Since 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.

Their 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-punks new darlings. With its Top Five-placing 2024 follow-up Wheres 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.

The journey of Smiths lyrics across each of their albums, Shipstone muses, has always beenquite Faustian: I