| Location | Falkirk |
| Formed | 2005 |
Y'all Is Fantasy Island are a group from Falkirk, Central Scotland, formed in 2005 by singer/songwriter Adam Stafford, Tommy Blair (guitar), and Jon McCall (drums, percussion, clarinet).
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Y'all Is Fantasy Island are a group from Falkirk, Central Scotland.
In their current line-up of Stafford, Blair, Steven Tosh (The Drums), and Jamie Macleod (The Bass) they have proceeded to bring their eclectic mix of melancholic acoustic folk, bombastic rock/pop and steamtrain thrash-blues grunge to the unsuspecting people of Scotland. In this time they have been honoured to have played alongside The Handsome Family, Radar Brothers, De Rosa, Frightened Rabbit, Thomas Truax, Broken Records, The Veils, Gasgiant and many other fine folks.
In 2008 they released 2nd album Rescue Weekend to equally rave reviews from the musical press. YIFI plan to follow this with the release of a further two albums before the year is out, No Ceremony (out 3 November), and 4th LP Infanticidal Genuflector (due early December), which sees them melch-out to sweet drones made for films you will never ever see.
Praise for Y'all Is Fantasy Island
'Falkirk's Y'all Is Fantasy Island temper their knowing indie literacy with pretence-free presentation, their faded polaroid confessionals created from with bowed guitar and cold, sepulchral drone.' - Plan B Magazine (Louis Pattison)
'YIFI create a poignant outsider soundscape, full of hurt and longing... Folk rock, country and Americana are all brought into the mix on this powerfully moving album.' - Daily Record (Rick Fulton)
'Sparse yet evocative acoustic creations with percussion, clarinet and the occasional, arresting thrash of electric guitar. In Faceless Towns Forever is a testament to the extraordinary creative possibilities afforded by a few friends getting together and putting their heart into the music, free from all the machinations and pretensions of the music industry.' - 4/5 - The Skinny (Nick Mitchell)
"Think King Creosote after a night on the fags with John Martyn... despite the sombre feel, you can't fail to be uplifted by the sheer majesty of the songs here. With the trio somehow marrying Leonard Cohen with famous fellow bairns Arab Strap, the town may not be faceless for much longer." - 5/5 - Isthismusic? magazine (Donald Bush)
"The unconventional song titles herald mournful Americana, sparse and delicately arranged. Having allowed themselves a comparatively generous three days to record, the variety of instrumentation present here endlessly wrong-foots the listener; acoustic guitar augmented variously by pedal steel, doleful brass, a sudden electric guitar riff, strings, crackles and bangs. Adam Stafford's tortured songwriting and delivery might seem unremittingly glum, but both menace and hope lurk in the periphery and as its effects distil, Rescue Weekend comes to claim its place in the heart and imagination". - 4/5 The List (Mark Edmundson)
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