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Blending wiry post-punk, dancefloor pulse and spoken-word swagger, the band skewer modern Britain with humour, heart and no small amount of side-eye. There’s intelligence in the chaos and a real warmth beneath the cynicism — songs that feel equally built for sweaty rooms, long train journeys and late-night overthinking. Few bands capture the tension, humour and humanity of contemporary life quite like Yard Act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wheres-my-utopia","title":"Where's My Utopia?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlbums of the Year 2024 - Number 10\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wasn't a fan of Yard Act at first - something just didn't make sense. Something was up with them. It might be because the singer looks exactly like someone that annoys me. 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Jumbo always had (and still does have) an excellent dub\/ reggae selection - and actually released reggae records on its own 'Jumbo label' imprint back in the 70s (how ace is that!?).I had a grounding in reggae from my dad who'd turned me onto the likes of Burning Spear and Linton Kwesi Johnson, but didn't really know much about dub music beyond a Bob Marley record produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry he'd given me called \u003ci\u003eAfrican Herbsman\u003c\/i\u003e. I started dabbling in dub off the back of that. After a few choice 'Scratch' cuts and King Tubby best of, I bought the Jah Shaka meets Mad Professor record in Jumbo purely because I liked the artwork and because I thought the name was cool. What a purchase. I've been a fan ever since. 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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 album’s 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 cameo’s from ‘Fixer Upper’s' Graeme and a clear structure of four parts, there is no getting around it — Yard Act have written a soap opera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePulling off a debut album in a pandemic isn’t easy, but somehow, Yard Act have made it work. 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