UK post-punks Yard Act (ex-Menace Beach) share “Peanuts”

Emerging Leeds, UK outfit YARD ACT have today shared their new track “Peanuts” – out via their own Zen F.C. label. “Peanuts” welcomes new guitarist Sam Shjipstone to the fold, whose work brings a more progressive slant to the sound of Yard Act: more angular and more melodic in equal measure. Shjipstone’s grandad Ronnie Ronalde (otherwise known as ‘The World’s Most Famous Whistler’) is sampled underneath the second half of “Peanuts” with his touching rendition of “In A Monastery Garden” from 1917. Continuing Yard Act’s use of outlandish characters in their lyricism, “Peanuts” sees the turn of an imaginary husband murdered via a peanut allergy by his wife; the steadfast guitar lines and jutting rhythms propelling frontman Jame...

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