Yard Act debut new track Peanuts


Yard Act by James Brown

Yard Act by James Brown




Yard Act have debuted their latest track, Peanuts.

Premiered on BBC radio yesterday, after The Trapper’s Pelts and Fixer Upper it’s another brilliant slice of what is already becoming James Smith’s trademark lyrical slant. “While Peanuts is quite clearly about a woman killing her imaginary husband, it’s also about accepting that we don’t all see the world in the same way,” he says.

“It feels to me that divisions are getting more extreme. We’re continually squeezing what should be a wide ranging spectrum of opinions and beliefs into two immovable castles towering either side of an unelected, unaccountable line in the sand. We’re so certain we’re right that we can’t comprehend why someone else could see the world differently to the way we do.”

The track also officially welcomes new guitarist Sam Shjipstone to the band, who joins Smith, bass player Ryan Needham and drummer George Townend after they formed Yard Act around Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club last year.


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