YARD ACT The Overload (2022 UK/EU limited edition 11-track LP, pressed on 180-gram Ghetto Lettuce Green Vinyl, the critically acclaimed debut album from the UK post-punk/indie rockers. Picture sleeve with lyric insert and illustrated inner. The sleeve shows just a little light scuffing and is fully Autographed by the band in gold an silver marker pen. The vinyl is in Near Mint condition. Essential)

TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
The Overload is a record of great dexterity and curation, the output of a band who were raised on a 00s digital-revolution buffet of wide musical influences. Growing up on US MTV Hip-Hop, minimal 70s No-Wave and sharp-witted British indie, Yard Act benefit from this rich tapestry of musical near-history, using it to create something that feels like more than a trendy pastiche.

While time-travelling in parts sonically, The Overload weaves a very-2021 storyline. The group made the decision early on to leave Fixer Upper and Dark Days off their album debut (it sounds arrogant, but we felt we had enough good songs without em), but the joyous specificity of their early lyrical observation is still in fine evidence, plotting a visceral, satirical journey through capitalism and greed. Across the albums 11 tracks, an unnamed character a bricolage of characters that Smith has met, imagined, or himself been finds himself in quite the financial pickle, ricocheting from desk job to desperate illicit activity to police investigation, before culminating in the kind of half-cut personal epiphany that even the most law-abiding among us could relate to. Bookended by cheeky cameos from Fixer Uppers’ Graeme and a clear structure of four parts, there is no getting around it Yard Act have written a soap opera.

Pulling off a debut album in a pandemic isnt easy, but somehow, Yard Act have made it work. Recording with Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding) at his Bristol studio, those prolific demos have been sharpened down into something that speaks to the times we live in, creating a statement of intent that survives on nuance a record of retro influences, recorded in a modern way, that manages to poke fun at society without punching down from a place of lefty superiority. The Overload is a political record, but in the same way that all great observations of human nature are a messy, complex, knowingly hypocritical snapshot of our current state of play.

Side A
1.The Overload
2.Dead Horse
3.Payday
4.Rich
5.The Incident
6.Witness

Side B
1.Land Of The Blind
2.Quarantine The Sticks
3.Tall Poppies
4.Pour Another
5.100% Endurance

Artist – Yard Act (click link for complete listing)
Title – The Overload (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release – 2022
Original Year of Release – 2021
Format – vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label – Zen F.C
Catalogue No – ZENFC007LP (click link for more)
Country of Origin – United Kingdom (UK)
Language – Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Additional info – Picture Sleeve, Autographed
Barcode – 602438649402
Condition – This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No – 5E-LPTH875435
Alternative Names – Yardact,The Yard Act.
Related Artists – Treeboy & Arc.

GENRES
Indie, Rock.

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