Yak detail debut record Alas Salvation, share video for new single "Victorious (National Anthem)"

The announcement arrives just over 365 days since Yak's debut single ("Hungry Hearts") was released.

Yak frontman Oli Burslem says of the LP: “I was trying to make it a slightly schizophrenic record that had all these different elements, but had so much of everything that by the end it would all just be lost and everybody would be like, ‘What the hell was that? I don’t know what that was, but I kind of enjoyed it’.”

Alas Salvation is out 13 May via Octopus Electrical. It was recorded with Pulp's Steve Mackey.

Watch the video for "Victorious (National Anthem)" below, and find the tracklist and Yak's new live dates after.

Tracklist:

1. Victorious (National Anthem)
2. Hungry Heart
3. Use Somebody
4. (Interlude I)
5. Roll Another
6. Curtain Twitcher
7. Take It
8. Harbour The Feeling
9. Alas Salvation
10. Smile
11. Doo Wah
12. (Interlude II)
13. Please Don’t Wait For Me

May

11 - Birmingham, Rainbow
12 - Sheffield, Bungalows and Bears
13 - Glasgow, Stereo
14 - Manchester Deaf Institute
15 - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
18 - Bristol, Exchange
20 - Southampton, Joiners
21 - Oxford, Bullingdon
24 - London, Dingwalls