Leeds-based band Yard Act has released their latest single ‘The Trench Coat Museum’ after their 2022 album ‘The Overload’. The new track was premiered during their recent UK tour which included a five-night residency at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. The band has also announced a November headlining tour in the US, including their return to New York .
According to frontman James Smith, the new track delivers eight minutes of madness and deals with how their debut album “left us open to scrutiny and disdain just as much as love and appreciation.” Smith explained that criticism is fair game and the internet is lawless so you gotta take it as it comes.
The frontman elaborated that “‘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)”.
Yard Act’s chaotically brilliant new single ‘The Trench Coat Museum’ arrives with a video directed by James Slater, who says of his creation: “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”.
Who is Yard Act?
Yard Act is a post-punk band from Leeds, England. The band consists of James Smith (vocals), Ryan Needham (guitar), George Townend (bass), and Jay Russell (drums). They released their debut album ‘The Overload’ in 2022 and have since been touring the UK and the US .