Yak - Semi-Automatic

Yak don’t have a pause button or a restrained bone in their bodies. Debut album ‘Alas Salvation’ remains one of the year’s no-limits standouts, and they’re squeezing in one more double a-side single before the year’s out. Don’t rule out a Christmas single, either.

‘Semi-Automatic’ possesses the same unhinged spirit and organ-drenched noise as their debut’s best moments. Frontman Oli Burslem’s non-sensical chants are front and centre, too. The production is richer and more tightly-wound, perhaps, but beyond anything this is another lap on Yak’s victory march. They’re steamrollering forwards at an insane rate, and chances are they’ll remain a mainstay in 2017. Nothing can stop their ascent.