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The Overload - Green & White Marbled Vinyl - Autographed

YARD ACT The Overload (2022 UK exclusive Blood Records Retail edition 11-track LP pressed on Green & White Marbled Vinyl - Pulling off a debut album in a pandemic isn’t easy, but somehow, Yard Act have made it work. Recording with Ali Chant at his Bristol studio, The Overload is a political record, but in the same way that all great observations of human nature are – a messy, complex, knowingly hypocritical snapshot of our current state of play. Including the singles Land Of The Blind, Payday, 100% Endurance, the title track and more. Hand-numbered white and silver variant picture sleeve with illustrated inner, which has been autographed by all four members. The sleeve reveals the odd very minor scuff mark and the eye-catching vinyl is in Near Mint condition. Limited to only 500 copies)

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Price Info
$59.84, £44.99  
Product Availability Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 13th October
Release Date 21st Jan 2022
Release Year 2022 - 3 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Zen F.C. / Island
Complete Stock List Go to Yard Act
Product Catalogue No ZENFC005LP
Music Genre Indie, Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

A1. The Overload
A2. Dead Horse
A3. Payday
A4. Rich
A5. The Incident
A6. Witness
B1. Land Of The Blind
B2. Quarantine The Sticks
B3. Tall Poppies
B4. Pour Another
B5. 100% Endurance

The Overload is a record of great dexterity and curation, the output of a band who were raised on a 00s digital-revolution buffet of wide musical influences. Growing up on US MTV Hip-Hop, minimal 70s No-Wave and sharp-witted British indie, Yard Act benefit from this rich tapestry of musical near-history, using it to create something that feels like more than a trendy pastiche.

While time-travelling in parts sonically, The Overload weaves a very-2021 storyline. The group made the decision early on to leave ‘Fixer Upper’ and ‘Dark Days’ off their album debut (“it sounds arrogant, but we felt we had enough good songs without ‘em”), but the joyous specificity of their early lyrical observation is still in fine evidence, plotting a visceral, satirical journey through capitalism and greed. Across the album’s 11 tracks, an unnamed character – a bricolage of characters that Smith has met, imagined, or himself been – finds himself in quite the financial pickle, ricocheting from desk job to desperate illicit activity to police investigation, before culminating in the kind of half-cut personal epiphany that even the most law-abiding among us could relate to. Bookended by cheeky cameo’s from ‘Fixer Upper’s' Graeme and a clear structure of four parts, there is no getting around it — Yard Act have written a soap opera.

Pulling off a debut album in a pandemic isn’t easy, but somehow, Yard Act have made it work. Recording with Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding) at his Bristol studio, those prolific demos have been sharpened down into something that speaks to the times we live in, creating a statement of intent that survives on nuance – a record of retro influences, recorded in a modern way, that manages to poke fun at society without punching down from a place of lefty superiority. The Overload is a political record, but in the same way that all great observations of human nature are – a messy, complex, knowingly hypocritical snapshot of our current state of play.

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Recording Artist Yard Act
Product Title The Overload - Green & White Marbled Vinyl - Autographed
Product Information Yard Act The Overload - Green & White Marbled Vinyl - Autographed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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