Yard Act by Phoebe Fox
“We Make Hits started like most Yard Act songs do these days: in Ryan’s spare bedroom,” James Smith said.
Yard Act‘s build-up to the release of their second album Where’s My Utopia? on March 1st has continued with We Make Hits.
“I was reflecting on how things had changed so much for us over the last few years when I realised that sat round a laptop trying to make each other laugh, necking black coffee and craneing our heads out of the window to smoke cigs every hour or so, all that had really changed within the writing process was that, thanks to my baby, we were at Ryan’s house rather than mine and that Ryan had a place of his own now, which was nice,” Smith added.
Despite the outside blowing up, behind closed doors, we were the same, and I’m grateful for that. You can see the cynicism and the silliness on the surface of We Make Hits without much effort, but at its core, for me, it’s really an ode to friendship and the unfiltered joy you feel when you’re making music with the people you hold dear in your life.