Music
2025
Yard Act
'Post-punk's latest poster boys' are becoming more eccentric with each album
In hindsight, Yard Act's debut album may have been a disguise, full of the nihilistic post-punk that we apparently just couldn't get enough of back then. Since they caught our attention, the Leeds band seems less and less like Shame and early Fall and more and more like Gorillaz, The Avalanches, and... the later Fall. While frontman James Smith sprinkles in self-deprecation, ironic aphorisms, and hyper-Anglicisms, it’s raining comedians, samples, disco grooves, hip-hop beats, and spoken word passages. Yard Act welcomes you to a dizzying future: the situation is on fire, nowhere can you find peace, but if you dance hard enough, you won't notice at all. Hands over your eyes, glitter jacket on, forward, march!
