Yard Act have announced their new album ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ with the menacing single ‘Redeemer’ – along with more UK tour dates.
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The Leeds band will soon return with their third album, set for release on July 17 via Island Records (pre-order/pre-save here). It’s their first new record since 2024’s ‘Where’s My Utopia?‘.
Now, they’ve shared the first taste of ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ with ‘Redeemer’, which takes Yard Act down a much darker sonic path than previously. Over a stooping bassline and skeezy guitars, frontman James Smith proclaims: “Redeemer / You stole the sun / Now you orbit is the bullshit of the damage done”.
The band worked with Nine Inch Nails bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen on the album, and recorded it between LA and Leeds. It also marks the first time the band made an album live in the same room.
“The first two records were both laptop records essentially,” Smith said in a press statement, adding that ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ was written in an “uninterrupted five month period” of creativity. The band went on to produce “40 or 50 songs” from this time period, with Smith adding: “It felt like freedom. It felt like everything I’d wanted from being in a band”.
Take a listen to ‘Redeemer’ and see the album tracklisting below:
Yard Act’s ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ tracklisting is:
‘Empty Pledges’
‘New Beginnings’
‘Tall Tales’
‘Fiction’
‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’
‘Cherophobe Rock’
‘Thrill Of The Chase’
‘Janey Said’
‘Redeemer’
‘Talky Talky People’
‘Over The Barrel’
In addition, Yard Act will be extending their UK 2026 tour with a number of new dates, having previously announced shows in Leeds, Manchester and London.
Now, they’ve added an extra hometown show on November 7, and they’re also due to visit Newcastle (10), Glasgow (11), Leicester (16), Cambridge (18), Bristol (21) and more.
You can get early tickets by pre-ordering the album here by 10am May 12, or waiting for the general pre-sale at 10am May 13. General sale will then commence at 10am on May 15 – you can get your tickets here.
Yard Act’s 2026 UK headline dates are:
NOVEMBER
6 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
7 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy*
10 – Newcastle, UK – NX*
11 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom*
12 – Sheffield, UK – Octagon Centre*
13 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse
15 – Wolverhampton, UK – Wulfrun Hall*
16 – Leicester, UK – O2 Academy*
17 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City*
18 – Cambridge, UK – Junction 1*
20 – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy*
21 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon*
23 – Plymouth, UK – Plymouth Arena*
24 – Southampton, UK – O2 Guildhall*
26 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
* New date
When ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ dropped, NME gave the record a four-star review, saying that it “marks an outlandish yet assertive second chapter for Yard Act, going toe-to-toe with the peculiar world that we find ourselves in”.
Speaking to NME about ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ in October 2023, Smith explained that it was “about hope and perseverance”.
“A lot of what we’ve always done has been rooted in where society is at and a comment on the times, but it’s more universal,” he added. “Human beings have always been driven by our ambitions.
“In a world where there’s currently supermarkets where you can get food from and houses you can live in, once we’ve got the basics covered our minds aspire for other things our minds think are important because we’re not content in just being animals.”