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Yard Act play new album ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ in full at intimate surprise London gig

NME·Lisa Wright·6 months ago
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Yard Act debuted forthcoming third album ‘ You’re Gonna Need A Little Music ’ in full last night (Thursday May 7), playing the just-announced record top to bottom at Tottenham’s Unit 58.

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Having announced the album earlier in the day alongside the ominous crash of lead single ‘ Redeemer ’, the Leeds band took to the stage in the warehouse venue for a special show only announced to fans on their mailing list.

Kicking into the slow-building stream of consciousness of opening track ‘Empty Pledges’ and then the Beck -nodding ‘New Beginnings’, the set already found early fan favourites in the funk-tinged skulk of ‘Fiction’ and the record’s title track: a joyous piano-heavy highlight with touches of Pulp .

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