Yard Act
Where's My Utopia?
70--100点相当
Dork 含む2メディアが満点
ちょっと単純なタイプのポップ寄りになった感じ。
気のせいか？
リスナーからは、現況
1stよりこちらのほうが良いとしている傾向があるようだが、
個人的には、1stのほうが良かったかな。
現況のメディア平均でも高すぎという気がしている。
よりPULPのジャーヴィスに似てきたか。
“I attained perfection / So why the fuck was I still wondering what wankers would think of album two?” murmurs James Smith, Yard Act’s inimitable frontman. It’s the concluding remark on ‘Blackpool Illuminations’, a seven-minute spoken-word tale that vividly recounts trips to the seaside town with his parents, eventually juxtaposed against those with his own child. Indeed, this “perfection” he refers to is not their Number Two debut album ‘The Overload’ (2022), but his son, born in amongst the pandemonium of Yard Act’s sharp rise to fame.
Musings on fatherhood and his relationship with his folks (“I think you’re most in love with your parents”) are resemblant of a changed Smith, who simultaneously wrestles with the trials and tribulations of their success on ‘Where’s My Utopia?’, the Leeds quartet’s second album. Its goal was to merely make sense of their newfound status, plucked from spare moments amidst their record-breaking, relentless touring schedule. Always destined to outgrow the shallow ‘post-punk’ label, the band flex their creative muscles on the eclectic 11-song collection that tears down the very concept of genre.
2nd
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