Yard Act : The Overload (Ltd Deluxe Coloured 2LP)

While time-travelling in parts sonically, ‘The Overload’ weaves a very-2021 storyline. 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.

Track Listing:
1. The Overlord – Yard Act
2. Dead Horse – Yard Act
3. Payday – Yard Act
4. Rich – Yard Act
5. The Incident – Yard Act
6. Witness (Can I Get A?) – Yard Act
7. Land of the Blind – Yard Act
8. Quarantine the Sticks – Yard Act
9. Tall Poppies – Yard Act
10. Pour Ano