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Yard Act have dropped their debut single, 'The Trapper's Pelts'

The Leeds newcomers' teamed up with producer Bill Ryder Jones.

Yard Act have dropped their debut single, 'The Trapper's Pelts'

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Leeds newcomers Yard Act have dropped their debut single, 'The Trapper's Pelts'.

Out now via Zen F.C., and produced by Bill Ryder Jones, the unnerving slice of post-punk "skewers elements of the American frontier into a Scarface-type narrative set against the backdrop of a mundane West Yorkshire suburb," James Smith (vocals) explains.

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Brixton is booked. Westside Cowboy deserve an audience well beyond the people who found them first - and Yard Act, Fontaines D.C. and Wolf Alice have already shown how much there is to gain.

The band was formed last year by James and Ryan Needham (bass, and also 'of' Menace Beach), later joined by Sammy Robinson (guitar) and George Townend (drums), who they met at The Brudenell Social Club.

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