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Yard Act Ready New Album You’re Gonna Need a Little Music

The “Redeemer” video leads the Leeds band’s Justin Meldal-Johnsen-produced album By Jazz Monroe May 7, 2026 Save this story Save this story

Yard Act have lined up a new album: You’re Gonna Need a Little Music arrives June 17, via Republic . Lead single “ Redeemer ” is out today, along with a noirish video. Watch that below.

The quartet recorded the Where’s My Utopia? follow-up between its Leeds birthplace and Los Angeles, with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen. Scroll down for the album art and tracklist, along with all the band’s tour dates, which include a newly announced November UK run.

You’re Gonna Need a Little Music is the first Yard Act album that the four-piece made together in the same room, after a pair of what they call “laptop records.” Frontperson James Smith added in a press release that the album “is about multiple realities and how individualism has led us, in the modern world, to question if there even is a shared reality anymore because everyone just believes what they want now.”

Yard Act: You’re Gonna Need A Little Music Buy Now at Rough Trade

You’re Gonna Need a Little Music : 01 Empty Pledges 02 New Beginnings 03 Tall Tales 04 Fiction 05 You’re Gonna Need a Little Music 06 Cherophobe Rock 07 Thrill of the Chase 08 Janey Said 09 Redeemer 10 Talky Talky People 11 Over the Barrel

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Yard Act: 06-03 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound 06-11 Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound Porto 06-11 Hradec Králové, Czechia - Rock for People 06-14 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret 07-02 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter 08-05 San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern 08-06 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom 08-08 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands 08-09 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall 08-10 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre 08-11 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Pearl 08-13 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw 08-14 Washington, DC - Black Cat 08-15 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts 08-16 Boston, MA - The Sinclair 10-01 Paris, France - La Cigale 10-02 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique 10-03 Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVredenburg 10-05 Cologne, Germany - Gloria-Theater 10-07 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefährlich 10-08 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller Music Hall 10-09 Stockholm, Sweden - Kägelbanan 10-10 Copenhagen, Denmark - VEGA 10-12 Warsaw, Poland - NIEBO 10-13 Prague, Czechia - MeetFactory 10-14 Berlin, Germany - Festsaal Kreuzberg 10-16 Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks 10-17 Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali 10-18 Toulouse, France - La Cabane 10-20 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo 10-21 Madrid, Spain - Teatro Eslava 10-23 Lisbon, Portugal - Cineteatro Capitólio 11-06 Leeds, England - O2 Academy 11-07 Leeds, England - O2 Academy 11-10 Newcastle, England - NX 11-11 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland Ballroom 11-12 Sheffield, England - Octagon Centre 11-13 Manchester, England - O2 Victoria Warehouse 11-15 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall 11-16 Leicester, England - O2 Academy 11-17 Nottingham, England - Rock City 11-18 Cambridge, England - Junction 1 11-20 Oxford, England - O2 Academy 11-21 Bristol, England - Bristol Beacon 11-23 Plymouth, England - Plymouth Pavillions 11-24 Southampton, England - O2 Guildhall 11-26 London, England - O2 Academy Brixton

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/yard-act-ready-new-album-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music/)._