We're delighted to welcome Yard Act back to Jumbo Records for a very special signing session to celebrate the release of their new album 'You're Gonna Need A Little Music'. The band will be signing records from 4pm on Saturday 18th July.
For entry to the signing, pre-order the new album on Dinked Edition LP, Black LP, Marbled LP or CD HERE from 11am on Wednesday 24th June. If you have already pre-ordered the record from Jumbo, you have guaranteed your entry to the session already.
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-punk's new darlings. With its Top Five-placing 2024 follow-up Where's 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 fulfillment; of what happens next.
The journey of Smith's lyrics across each of their albums, Shipstone muses, has always been quite Faustian: 'It's someone who's seeking a goal, and then makes a pact with the devil to get the goods they want, but when they get them they're corrupted so they get the rewards but also
this bitterness too. 'And how does Faust end?' questions Needham. 'Oh, not well.'
If this sounds like a macabre place to root the objectively excellent third album from one of the country's most celebrated bands of the last decade, then it's also crucial to understanding Yard Act's newest - and best - record yet, You're Gonna Need A Little Music. Simultaneously the most
dynamic, collaborative, energised work they've laid to tape, but also containing some of the darkest, most cynical and truly questioning moments they've concocted too, it picks up their tale and examines the findings more unsparingly than ever.
For entry to the signing, pre-order the new album on Dinked Edition LP, Black LP, Marbled LP or CD HERE from 11am on Wednesday 24th June. If you have already pre-ordered the record from Jumbo, you have guaranteed your entry to the session already.
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-punk's new darlings. With its Top Five-placing 2024 follow-up Where's 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 fulfillment; of what happens next.
The journey of Smith's lyrics across each of their albums, Shipstone muses, has always been quite Faustian: 'It's someone who's seeking a goal, and then makes a pact with the devil to get the goods they want, but when they get them they're corrupted so they get the rewards but also
this bitterness too. 'And how does Faust end?' questions Needham. 'Oh, not well.'
If this sounds like a macabre place to root the objectively excellent third album from one of the country's most celebrated bands of the last decade, then it's also crucial to understanding Yard Act's newest - and best - record yet, You're Gonna Need A Little Music. Simultaneously the most
dynamic, collaborative, energised work they've laid to tape, but also containing some of the darkest, most cynical and truly questioning moments they've concocted too, it picks up their tale and examines the findings more unsparingly than ever.
