Yard Act - The Overload

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Yard Act - "The Overload" from the 2022 album The Overload on Zen F.C.

This might be the debut album from Leeds band Yard Act, but its members have been kicking around the scene for a while — frontman James Smith in Post War Glamour Girls, and bassist Ryan Needham as a member of Menace Beach. They're hardly the latest post-punk band to come out of the UK, but Smith brings a sarcastic sense of humor and gift for lyrics that sets them ahead of the pack.

"‘The Overload’ serves as an overture to the album," he says of today's Song of the Day to NME. "It’s written from the perspective of someone sitting in a pub overhearing snippets of all these different conversations from different characters and acting as a vessel, a medium even, for their own thoughts and opinions. That cut and paste approach means it’s hard to decipher where one person’s musings end and another’s statement begins, and that feels like a fairer representation of why human existence is at the point it is right now. Society doesn’t prevail because of the absolute, it struggles on in spite of it. It’s our ability to compromise which helps us to coexist."

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0:00.0	I'm shaking on my A-pop, as I'm trying to see What's in my world's got to stop for me You freedom don't come cheap I'm bowed to in hard with no room to give Living my life as if my head ain't ugly as shit Hold your horses, band it up, it's good to see you
0:30.0	These poor things been exhausted since A-3, but from the causeway He's had to see the bull extended the damage
0:37.0	You couldn't see the words for the trees They are my support to cope in the age of gentrified savage There's no hope in these days
0:45.0	They think they've been out on battle They've never even lost it tonight And long like I did once, they've got the whole thing wrong
0:51.0	Just bumbling along from the bottom of the rock In each other off and f**king design a box
0:56.0	It's a consequence of where for your pain for it In my day, the gear on the street was so weak
1:02.0	You could eat your ambition in a matter of weeks Just trying to envision the peak and that's bleak
1:08.0	And that's bleak
1:11.0	You won't be alone, that is the sense That comes from better than making sense
1:17.0	You won't be nice, you won't be nice I'll do it in any way, it is the next
1:24.0	You won't be alone, that is the sense That comes from better than making sense
1:31.0	You won't be nice, you won't be nice I'll do it in any way, it is the next
1:37.0	You won't be nice, you won't be nice I'll do it in any way, it is the next
1:42.0	Now then, look at what you need to understand is You want to make some decent money from it
1:47.0	You better off kicking up The singer you're going out the band
1:50.0	And getting yourself a kick down the ground And although I'm not, I'm the owner
1:54.0	Maybe I'll forgive you while I go But you just give him a hand
1:58.0	Just stop me doing originals By the standards and don't get political
2:02.0	I know what that kissing is like You're letting them in the back of an ambulance
2:06.0	To the micestamp rambles Twice over, all because he couldn't ignore the flag of faith polite
2:11.0	Show some respect And listen to my advice
2:14.0	Because if you don't challenge me on anything You'll find them actually very nice
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