Yard Act Announce ‘You’re Gonna Need a Little Music’ and Share New Song “Redeemer”

Yard Act are back to announce their third album, You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, out on July 17th via Republic Records. They’ve also shared the lead single, “Redeemer.”

The post-punk band’s new album follows 2024’s Where’s My Utopia? and was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson. The quartet notes in a press release that You’re Gonna Need a Little Music is the first album that they made “as a live band in the same room.” The project features a different lyrical focus from vocalist James Smith, using a more “impressionistic” and observational angle: “I think 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,” Smith said.

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“Redeemer” definitely feels more outwardly dark than some of Yard Act’s prior offerings, with yelped vocals and pounding, primal drumming from Jay Russell. Smith takes on the anxious perspective of someone fed up with the world but unable to escape it. “Redeemer! You stole the sun/ Now your orbit is the bullshit of the damage done,” he barks in the chorus; eventually, his cry of “Redeemer” is reduced to a croak in the final chorus. Stream the new track below.

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Yard Act will support You’re Gonna Need a Little Music with a North American tour kicking off in San Diego on August 5th; in addition to playing Outside Lands in San Francisco, the group will make stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston. Check out their tour dates below, and get tickets to see Yard Act here .

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You’re Gonna Need a Little Music Artwork:

You’re Gonna Need a Little Music Tracklist:

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

Yard Act 2026 Tour Dates:

06/03 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound

06/11 — Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto

06/11 — Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock for People

06/14 — Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret

07/02 — Werchter, BE @ 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, BC @ 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, FR @ La Cigale

10/02 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique

10/03 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg

10/05 — Cologne, DE @ Gloria-Theater

10/07 — Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich

10/08 — Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall

10/09 — Stockholm, SE @ Kägelbanan

10/10 — Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA

10/12 — Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO

10/13 — Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory

10/14 — Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg

10/16 — Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks

10/17 — Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali

10/18 — Toulouse, FR @ La Cabane

10/20 — Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo

10/21 — Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava

10/23 — Lisbon, PT @ Cineteatro Capitólio

11/06 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds

11/07 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy

11/10 — Newcastle, UK @ NX

11/11 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom

11/12 — Sheffield, UK @ Octagon Centre

11/13 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse

11/15 — Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun Hall

11/16 — Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy

11/17 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City

11/18 — Cambridge, UK @ Junction 1

11/20 — Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy

11/21 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon

11/23 — Plymouth, UK @ Plymouth Pavillions

11/24 — Southampton, UK @ O2 Guildhall

11/26 — London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton

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_Originally reported by [Consequence](https://consequence.net/2026/05/yard-act-youre-gonna-need-a-little-music-new-album-redeemer-new-song-stream/)._