Yard Act’s second record will be WHERE MY UTOPIA? and will be published on March 1, 2023.
A little over two years after their debut album THE OVERLOAD, Yard Act will release their second record on March 1, 2024. The work will be WHERE MY UTOPIA? and was produced by the Leeds quartet together with Remi Kabaka Jr. (Gorillaz). The Brits have already shared a first single including a music video.
Watch and listen to the new track “Dream Job” here:
Singer-songwriter James Smith of Yard Act says of the new song: ““Dream Job” feels like a fitting introduction to the themes found on WHERE MY UTOPIA? are represented – even if not comprehensively. Partly I was questioning and ridiculing myself for being a nagging, ungrateful little brat, while at the same time trying to address how the music industry is a pretty uncontrollable beast that charges mindlessly forward and every single person involved in it is, plays her role. Including myself of course. As with pretty much everything that has crossed my mind over the past year, I couldn’t find the right time to articulate – or accommodate – the complexity of the emotions I was feeling and the gravity with which I felt them, so instead I tried to capture them in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog has cleared a bit. That’s good and bad. I’m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.”
WHERE MY UTOPIA? – Cover artwork
WHERE MY UTOPIA? – Tracklist
- An illusion
- We Make Hits
- Down By The Stream
- The Undertow
- Dream job
- Fizzy Fish
- petroleum
- When The Laughter Stops (ft. Katy J Pearson)
- Grifter’s Grief
- Blackpool Illuminations
- A Vineyard for the North
Yard Act will also be on tour in Germany in April 2024 – presented by MUSIKEXPRESS. It starts on April 17th in Munich and the final takes place on April 27th in Cologne. For tickets go this way.
Yard live live – concert dates at a glance
- April 17, 2024 – Munich, Muffathalle
- April 18, 2024 – Berlin, Kreuzberg Festival Hall
- April 24th, 2024 – Hamburg, nasty & dangerous
- April 27, 2024 – Cologne, canteen
More about Yard Act
James Smith, Ryan Needham, Sam Shipstone and Jay Russell describe themselves as a “minimalist rock group”. Her socially critical and political lyrics are inspired by post-punk and contain typically British humor. In 2020 they celebrated success with their first song “The Trapper’s Pelt”. It wasn’t until two years later that her first record, THE OVERLOAD, was released.