This New Music Friday has brought the release of Yard Act’s debut album ‘The Overload’ – have a listen on Live4ever.
The Overload was described as, ‘a document of a strange time, for us personally, but also a strange time for England and the world in general’, by Yard Act’s James Smith on the eve of its release, the culmination of a remarkable rise for a band which went into lockdown having barely played a live show, but emerged out of it with a line-up half changed and some of the most talked about singles of 2021.
“A fair amount of the time debut albums sounds exactly like you think they will,” our 8/10 review reads.
“Whether this is because that’s what you really want, or that those people writing them do, they’re more often than not a case of wish fulfillment.”
“The Overload isn’t a dozen Grahams being dickheads twelve times over whilst you look good on the dancefloor; it’s got warmth, heart and pith in equal measure.”