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Amusing characters populate some of the songs of Leeds, England post-punk four-piece Yard Act, including those on their debut album, The Overload. Midway through the album’s title track, frontman and wordsmith James Smith sings from the perspective of Graham, who dispenses unwelcome advice about how they’d be “better off kicking that dickhead singer you’ve got in out the band” and should stick to covers and avoid political lyrics, especially if they want to perform at a pub called The Grand run by a landlord named Fat Andy.

Shared to the Reddit page CasualUK, the post was immediately flooded with speculation about what the punters had done to deserve total banishment from the pub, believed to be in South London.

Nightmare Before Christmas weekender in Minehead, not far from their Bristol base. Among them was ‘ Machine Gun’, a stripped-raw pulsation of electronic marching drums topped by typically ethereal vocals from Gibbons. As a sign of things to come, it was striking to hear – primitive but startlingly progressive, a distillation of facets experienced before but focused into a potency unexpected. Portishead had changed, period. The band has had to change, though – such a significant time between albums must indicate stylistic shifts, displeasure with established norms, and so it proves to...