{"id":3240,"date":"2023-10-31T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:04:43","slug":"yard-act-wheres-my-utopia-1mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/yard-act-wheres-my-utopia-1mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Yard Act \u2013 <em>Where\u2019s My Utopia?<\/em>, out 1 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Yard Act - \" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/yard-act-where-s-my-utopia\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Yard Act - Where\u2019s My Utopia?\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2403\/YardAct.jpg\" alt=\"Yard Act - Where\u2019s My Utopia?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Where\u2019s My Utopia?<\/em><\/strong> is the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Leeds band <strong>Yard Act<\/strong>\u2019s debut record <em>The Overload<\/em>, which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize after a slew of positive reviews, national radio playlistings and a placing at #2 in the Official Charts.<\/p>\n<p>Frontman James Smith has said that lead single \u2018Dream Job\u2019 \u201c<em>feels like an apt introduction to the themes explored on Where\u2019s My Utopia? \u2013 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. Myself included, obviously. As with pretty much everything else going through my head last year, trying to find the right time to articulate the complexity of emotions I was feeling and the severity to which I was feeling them couldn\u2019t be found \u2013 or accommodated, so instead I tried to capture it in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog had cleared a bit. It\u2019s good and bad. I\u2019m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>magenta vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to physical record shops, and on <strong>indies-only yellow vinyl<\/strong> with an exclusive sticker sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yard Act - \" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/yard-act-where-s-my-utopia\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where\u2019s My Utopia? is the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Leeds band Yard Act\u2019s debut record The Overload, which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize after a slew of positive reviews, national radio playlistings and a placing at #2 in the Official Charts. Frontman James Smith has said that lead single \u2018Dream Job\u2019 \u201cfeels like an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,1614],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-yard-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}