Yard Act Announce Third Studio Album 'You're Gonna Need A Little Music' And Autumn UK Tour
Thursday, 07 May 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: James Winstanley
Yard Act have announced their third album.
The follow-up to 2024's 'Where’s My Utopia?' is titled 'You’re Gonna Need A Little Music' and will arrive through Island Records on July 17.
Recorded between the Mercury Prize-nominated band's hometown of Leeds and Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, whose credits include Nine Inch Nails, Beck and St. Vincent, the album is described as their most lively and collaborative work so far, though it also includes some of their darkest, most cynical moments. It also marks the first time the band has created an album together as a live band in the same room.
"The first two records were both laptop records essentially," frontman James Smith explained. Their debut, 'The Overload', was penned before the band had fully come together, and its follow-up, 'Where’s My Utopia?,' was created in short bursts while on tour and in hotel rooms during a busy schedule of, "slinging [all our gear] in the rehearsal space, going back home, and then a week later piling it back into a van again."
On working in the same studio together for an “uninterrupted five month period" and creating "40 or 50 songs" with no external pressure, Smith said "it felt like freedom. It felt like everything I’d wanted from being in a band."
Alongside the announcement, Yard Act have shared the first single from the album, Redeemer, which delivers a darker, more brooding sound around a prominent bassline and Smith's poetic, spoken-word lyrical style.
They've also scheduled a UK tour alongside their previously announced shows in Leeds, Manchester and London in November, including a second date added at the O2 Academy Leeds. The UK run will follow European dates in June, shows in North America throughout August and another round of dates in Europe in October.
Tickets for the new UK shows go on general sale at 10am on May 15. All other dates are on sale now.
'You’re Gonna Need A Little Music' 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
NEW // Not only have @YardActBand announced their third album 'You're Gonna Need A Little Music', they've also built a full UK tour around their previously confirmed trio of shows in November.
Fri November 06 2026 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds Sat November 07 2026 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Tue November 10 2026 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NX
Wed November 11 2026 - GLASGOW Barrowland Ballroom
Thu November 12 2026 - SHEFFIELD Octagon Centre
Fri November 13 2026 - MANCHESTER O2 Victoria Warehouse Sun November 15 2026 - WOLVERHAMPTON University of Wolverhampton at The Wulfrun Hall
Mon November 16 2026 - LEICESTER O2 Academy Leicester
Tue November 17 2026 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Wed November 18 2026 - CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Junction
Fri November 20 2026 - OXFORD O2 Academy Oxford
Sat November 21 2026 - BRISTOL Bristol Beacon
Mon November 23 2026 - PLYMOUTH Plymouth Arena
Tue November 24 2026 - SOUTHAMPTON O2 Guildhall Southampton
Thu November 26 2026 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
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