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Yard Act

'Post-punk's latest poster boys' are becoming more eccentric with each album

Achteraf gezien was het debuutalbum van Yard Act misschien wel een vermomming, vol van de nihilistische postpunk waar we toen blijkbaar maar geen genoeg van konden krijgen. Sinds ze onze aandacht hebben, lijkt de band uit Leeds steeds minder op Shame en de vroege Fall en steeds meer op Gorillaz, The Avalanches en… de latere Fall. Terwijl frontman James Smith strooit met zelfspot, ironische aforismen en hyper-anglicismen, regent het komieken, samples, disco-grooves, hiphop-beats en spoken word-passages. Yard Act heet je welkom in een duizelingwekkende toekomst: de boel fikt, nergens kom je tot rust, maar als je maar hard genoeg danst, merk je daar helemaal niets van. Handen voor je ogen, glitterjas aan, voorwaarts, mars!


In retrospect, Yard Act's debut album was perhaps a disguise, full of the nihilistic post-punk that we apparently couldn’t get enough of at the time. Since they have caught our attention, the Leeds-based band seems to resemble less and less of Shame and the early Fall, and more and more of Gorillaz, The Avalanches, and… the later Fall. As frontman James Smith throws around self-deprecation, ironic aphorisms, and hyper-Anglicisms, it pours comedians, samples, disco grooves, hip-hop beats, and spoken word passages. Yard Act welcomes you to a dizzying future: everything is burning, you can't find peace anywhere, but as long as you dance hard enough, you won’t notice a thing. Hands over your eyes, glitter jacket on, forward, march!


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