Yard Act return with new single ‘The Trench Coat Museum’
After following up their brilliant debut album ‘The Overload’ with the stunning Elton John collaborations on ‘Tiny Dancer’ and ‘100% Commitment’ at the end of last year, Yard Act are now back to share a brand new single.
The new track ‘The Trench Coat Museum’ was co-produced by the band and Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr., and comes accompanied by a vibrant new video, directed by James Slater.
Speaking about the new offering, the band’s James Smith said, “’The Trench Coat Museum’ is about how our perception of everything shifts both collectively and individually over time at speeds we simply can’t measure in the moment. Within whatever space in society we occupy, we often see our own beliefs as being at the absolute pinnacle of what should be the “cultural norm” and whilst the completely human trait of being self-assured can’t be helped, it’s an absolute hindrance on our collective process. We are one etc. (Are we fuck)”.
While director Slater added on the visuals, “The video serves as a continuation and expansion of the Yard Act universe we explored on the first album. It’s set some 30 years in the future in this strange, dystopian trench coat museum in which an enigmatic character – the visitor – takes an audio guided tour. The song’s an eight-minute banger so I wanted the exhibits to come to life so that we could transition from an exhibition tour to a warehouse rave. It feels like a mini-film which is no accident, we see this as the first part of a Yard Act movie that coincides with their next album.”