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Yard Act

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

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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