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Charles Gray

Leeds band Yard Act who battled Years and Years for No.1 with their first album

Talking is something that Leeds post punk band Yard Act have a knack for.

The four piece's defining spoken word verses, delivered with lacerating intensity by frontman James Smith, tackle topics of a disaffected post-Brexit Britain by making use of character studies, meta references and observations delivered as caustic ramblings.

Therefore I had high hopes when I caught up with bassist Ryan Needham on the back of the band's triumphant homecoming show at a sold out Belgrave Music Hall in February as part of Independent Venue Week.

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