Stornoway
Beachcomber's Windowsill

Go back a few years, when Folk was old men in fluffy jumpers and the spectre of hippiedom and the sixties. Memories of Bob Dylan and Neil Young faded ...

Buy at iTunesThere are plenty of ways to fight that nagging suspicion that life's got you in the cross-hairs: Call your lawyer and litigate, draw a fu...

‘Beachcomber’s Windowsill Didn’t that come out in May’ you say, and you’d be right. But seeing as good music doesn’t have a sale by date we thought n...

Beachcomber's Windowsill is an album with a minor identity crisis. The debut release from British band Stornoway adheres mostly to the type of folk-po...

Oxford band Stornoway offer something different from the UK with their Brit-folk harmonizing debut that has an overall acoustic vibe while supported w...

"Zorbing", Stornoway's breakthrough single, compares the rush of first love to an obscure sport invented in 1990s New Zealand. To "zorb" is to go roll...

Zorbing: Rolling around inside a big inflated plastic bubble. Zorbing: The quintessential British pop tune and natural, almost effortless feeling, hit...

We’re halfway through 2010 now, and the folk explosion which has been sending concussive blows to the UK music scene over the past few years is showin...

Not unlike the Whale, this monster is placid and benevolent; Stornoway sound a little like the Lucksmiths, but with English choirboy-vox and country d...

Stornoway - Beachcomber's WindowsillThere’s no two-ways about it – this is a record that promises so much in terms of potential and excitement. Storno...