Y’All Is Fantasy Island – No Ceremony

“Here it is!” says Adam Stafford on the wee postcard that arrived inside this DIY promo package, “two and a bit years in the making – No Ceremony.” He makes it sound as though Y’all Is Fantasy Island’s existence has been geared toward this very moment. But there's been little to zero thumb twiddling from day one, having released two other gorgeous records in as many years whilst garnering a respectable live reputation with numerous incarnations of his band. By now, YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand. No Ceremony finds considered rockers like Punk Rock Disco jostling with the punky urgency of Wreck on the Highway Boy and the folky, banjo-plucked majesty of Jack Montgomery for pride of place on an album schizophrenic in style but remarkably consistent in quality. I say that, jaw agape, because Stafford and co just scored the hat-trick. [Dave Kerr]