Y'All is Fantasy Island - With Handclaps EP

Like their contemporaries Frightened Rabbit, Y'All Is Fantasy Island are a band who seem to take the conveyor belt approach to music production: write, record, and repeat. But that's where the factory motif ends, because just three months since producing the four-Skinny rated Rescue Weekend, Adam Stafford and his revamped band have crafted another fine, albeit more compact, collection of songs. Consider Yourself Swallowed is a simmering distillation of pent-up aggression, Punk Rock Disco an intriguing blend of 90s American rock and Kevin Shields-ian tremolo fuzz, With Handclaps a kind of rock Boléro, while A General Gust finds them back in their former late-night, slow-burner element. With another album on the horizon, YiFi are not just prolific - they're unstoppable. [Nick Mitchell]

Video: With Handclaps (Live)