New Music: New Beginnings

           

Yard Act are back and have released "New Beginnings," the second single and video from their forthcoming album You’re Gonna Need A Little Music. The Leeds quartet’s third studio album is due July 17 via Republic Records. "New Beginnings" follows the album's lead single, "Redeemer." In the announcement, frontman and vocalist James Smith described the new song as a lighter counterpoint to the darker tone of the first single, is a bit of light to counteract the dark we led with. The album was recorded between Leeds and Los Angeles with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, whose credits include Nine Inch Nails, Beck, and St. Vincent. Smith, bassist Ryan Needham, guitarist Sam Shjipstone, and drummer Jay Russell made the record together in the same room, a first for Yard Act. Smith said the band’s first two records were “both laptop records essentially,” while this album came from five months of uninterrupted writing and recording.