Yard Act have returned with a new single, The Trench Coat Museum.
Produced with Gorillaz' Remi Kabaka Jr., it marks the band's first new music since the release of their debut album, 'The Overload', early in 2022.
Exploring the Leeds group's reactions to their increasing popularity, the eight-minute track was penned by vocalist James Smith and finds the four-piece heading in a new direction, dropping electronic elements into their alt-rock sound. Smith said:
"Criticism is fair game and the internet is lawless so you gotta take it as it comes, but I definitely stopped searching for myself on Twitter the day I read that someone wanted to punch my lights out."
"The Trench Coat Museum is about how our perception of everything shifts both collectively and individually over time at speeds we simply can’t measure in the moment. Within whatever space in society we occupy, we often see our own beliefs as being at the absolute pinnacle of what should be the ‘cultural norm’ and whilst the completely human trait of being self-assured can’t be helped, it's an absolute hindrance on our collective process. We are one etc. (Are we fuck)."
Check out the song's accompanying video below, directed by James Slater, who said:
"The video serves as a continuation and expansion of the Yard Act universe we explored on the first album. It’s set some 30 years in the future in this strange, dystopian trench coat museum in which an enigmatic character — the visitor — takes an audio guided tour.
"The song’s an eight-minute banger so I wanted the exhibits to come to life so that we could transition from an exhibition tour to a warehouse rave. It feels like a mini-film which is no accident, we see this as the first part of a Yard Act movie that coincides with their next album."
Yard Act will play Latitude Festival in Suffolk later in July, before appearances at Boardmasters in Cornwall, and Reading and Leeds. They also have US dates in the diary for September and November, including a slot at Chicago's Riot Fest.
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