Today, the British art rock group Yard Act announced You're Gonna Need A Little Music, their third studio album and first piece of new music since 2024's Where's My Utopia? The band also shared the leading single, "Redeemer," along with a flashy, colorful, buggy music video.

Watch/listen to "Redeemer" below:

Between records and nonstop touring, Yard Act found themselves finally in the same room, able to write and play songs together like a proper band. For an "uninterrupted five month period," according to front man and lyricist James Smith, the band members were able to punch out "40 or 50 songs," letting them pursue each idea before whittling it down to eleven tracks. “It felt like freedom,” says Smith. “It felt like everything I’d wanted from being in a band.”

"I think the album is about multiple realities and how individualism has led us, in the modern world, to question if there even is a shared reality anymore because everyone just believes what they want now,” Smith adds. 

Thus, due to the experimental nature of the writing, the songs on You're Gonna Need A Little Music warp character, style, and tone, maximizing the use of the "art rock" moniker. "Redeemer," for instance, plays out like a seedy rock revivalist track, decorating the snappy drums with shouting vocals, gritty electric guitars, and punchy lyrics that teeter between the religious and sacrilege.

Last month, Yard Act announced a North American tour beginning in July, coinciding with the release of the album. It'll be their first tour there since 2024; tickets are available now.

You're Gonna Need A Little Music is out July 17 via Republic Records. Pre-order here. Official tracklist:

1. Empty Pledges
2. New Beginnings
3. Tall Tales
4. Fiction
5. You're Gonna Need A Little Music
6. Cherophobe Rock
7. Thrill Of The Chase
8. Janey Said
9. Redeemer
10. Talky Talky People
11. Over The Barrel

Tour dates:

06/03 Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/11 Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto
06/11 Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock for People
06/14 Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret
07/02 Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
08/05 San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
08/06 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
08/08 San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
08/09 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
08/10 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
08/11 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
08/13 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
08/14 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
08/15 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
08/16 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
10/01 Paris, FR @ La Cigale
10/02 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
10/03 Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
10/05 Cologne, DE @ Gloria-Theater
10/07 Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich
10/08 Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall
10/09 Stockholm, SE @ Kägelbanan
10/10 Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA
10/12 Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO
10/13 Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
10/14 Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
10/16 Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks
10/17 Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali
10/18 Toulouse, FR @ La Cabane
10/20 Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo
10/21 Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava
10/23 Lisbon, PT @ Cineteatro Capitólio
11/06 Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
11/13 Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
11/26 London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton

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