Yard Act announce third album 'You’re Gonna Need A Little Music' • News • DIY Magazine

Just when we needed it most, Leeds quartet Yard Act have returned with news of their brand new album, the sagely-titled ‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’.

The band’s forthcoming third LP will follow on from their 2024 effort ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ when it’s released on 13th July via Island Records. Written during a uninterupted five month stint the band had off the road (““It felt like freedom,” the band’s James Smith has said. “It felt like everything I’d wanted from being in a band.”), the record was then recorded in both Leeds and Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St Vincent).

Alongside the new of their new album - which is set to be eleven tracks in length - they’ve also shared its lead single, ‘Redeemer’, a gnarled track thats enough to shake off the cobwebs of present times. Check it out below.

‘You’re Gonna Need A Little Music’ tracklisting:
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

The band also have a busy summer of live shows scheduled, alongside a newly-announced UK headline tour in the diary for later this year. Check out the dates below.

JUNE 2026
03 Primavera Sound, Barcelona
11 Rock For People, Český Brod, Czechia
13 Primavera Sound Porto, Porto
14 Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek

JULY 2026
02 Rock Werchter, Werchter

AUGUST 2026
05 Belly Up, Solana Beach
06 Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles
07 Outside Lands, San Francisco
09 Revolution Hall, Portland
10 Neptune Theatre, Seattle
11 The Pearl, Vancouver
13 Warsaw, Brooklyn
14 Black Cat, Washington
15 Underground Arts, Philadelphia
16 The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA

OCTOBER 2026
01 La Cigale, Paris
02 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
03 Tivoliredenburg Ronda, Utrecht
05 Gloria, Cologne
07 Uebel & Gefährlich
08 Rockefeller, Oslo
09 Kagelbanan, Stockholm
10 Vega Main Hall, Copenhagen
12 Niebo, Warsaw
13 MeetFactory, Prague
14 Festival Kreuzberg, Berlin
16 Les Docks, Zurich
17 Magazzini Generali, Milan
19 La Cabane, Toulouse
20 Apolo, Barcelona
21 Teatro Eslava, Madrid
23 Capitolio, Lisbon

NOVEMBER 2026
06 O2 Academy, Leeds
07 O2 Academy, Leeds *New Date*
10 NX, Newcastle *New Date*
11 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow *New Date*
12 Octagon Centre, Sheffield *New Date*
13 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
15 Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton *New Date*
16 O2 Academy, Leicester *New Date*
17 Rock City, Nottingham *New Date*
18 Junction 1, Cambridge *New Date*
20 O2 Academy, Oxford *New Date*
21 Bristol Beacon, Bristol *New Date*
23 Plymouth Arena, Plymouth *New Date*
24 O2 Guildhall, Southampton *New Date*
26 O2 Academy Brixton, London