YARD ACT - Where's My Utopia? - Vinyl (LP)
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YARD ACT
Where's My Utopia? (limited utopian orange vinyl LP + booklet + stickers (indie exclusive))
Island
Cat: 585083 8. Rel: 4 Mar 24
Indie/Alternative
Side 1 - Track 1. An Illusion Side 1 - Track 2. We Make Hits Side 1 - Track 3. Down By The Stream Side 1 - Track 4. The Undertow Side 1 - Track 5. Dream Job Side 1 - Track 6. Fizzy Fish Side 2 - Track 1. Petroleum Side 2 - Track 2. When The Laughter Stops Side 2 - Track 3. Grifter's Grief Side 2 - Track 4. Blackpool Illuminations Side 2 - Track 5. A Vineyard For The North
Where's My Utopia? is the follow up to the Leeds band's critically-acclaimed debut record The Overload, which arrived in January 2022. A co-production between Yard Act and Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr., this latest album comes across as a meditation on the contemporary post-Fordist condition of the creative worker. Speaking about 'Dream Job', the band's James Smith said: "'Dream Job' feels like an apt introduction to the themes explored on Where's My Utopia? - though not all encompassing. In part I was scrutinising and mocking myself for being a moaning ungrateful little brat, whilst also trying to address how the music industry is this rather uncontrollable beast that hurtles forward unthinkingly, and every single person involved in it plays their part." Echoing the conflicted inner turmoil of reluctant bandleaders such as Mark E Smith of the Fall - "it's a constant battle" - and the sonic affect of Talking Heads, the album addresses a question central to our times: what do you do when everything you've ever wanted suddenly lands in your lap, but the questions still keep on coming? How do you handle fame and success, when your fans secretly resent the structures that elevated you to that status? Despite these contradictions, all this doesn't stop James Smith, Ryan Needham and Sam Shipstone from delivering a rip-roaring album as expected. If they can find the motivation to make such effective music despite their doubts (meditating on present conditions of poverty while keeping up a smile), then so, perhaps, can you.
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