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

Let's begin here:If you were to chart rock bands from Oxford, England, you'dfind newcomers Stornoway at the furthest point possible from Radiohead,son...

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...

Stornoway chop their carrots. No food processors here, thanks. Yes, the sound of chopping carrots is one of many heard on this down-to-earth, tech-lig...

Stornoway - presumably named after a burgh in Scotland - are a gentle mix of Belle And Sebastian lyricism ("uni" is mentioned only a few lines into th...