Incoming: The Rolling Stones, Holy Ghost!, Laura Marling, Dillinger Escape Plan, Atlas Genius, the Black Angels, the Presets, the Postelles, Kate Nash, Daughter, Youngblood Hawke, Carla Morrison, Sweet & Tender Hooligans, Shout Out Louds, Breathe Carolina, Turbonegro, Cold War Kids, Mikal Cronin, Opeth, Amanda Jo Williams, Sir Sly, Fleetwood Mac, War, Imperial Teen, Juanes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Smoke Season, Stornoway, the Damned Above: Swedish indie-poppers Shout Out Louds are back with a new album "Optica" (just out on Merge), and they visit the El Rey Theatre on Thursday and [...]
By Tom Fake 15, May 2013 The Hot Five – My views on five tracks that have attracted my interest in any given week, usually with an older track thrown in the mix for something a bit different. Tracks usually concentrate on pop/rock releases, but really focusing on anything and everything that comes my way. Royal Canoe - 'Bathtubs' Okay, so this is a song that has its fingers in so many musical pies. Even in the opening exchanges [...]
Frank Yang 2010 wasn't really that long ago, but apparently it was long enough that I'd just about forgotten about Oxford, England's Stornoway despite their debut Beachcomber's Windowsill making it onto my year-end list , helped along by a stellar local live debut that December at the El Mocambo. Which is not to say that I had forgotten them completely or that I liked them, but by the time their follow-up album Tales From Terra Firma came out in mid-March, they'd [...]
Stornoway take us on an adventure. 4AD, 2013 6.8 / 10 For their new album, Tales from Terra Firma, Stornoway frontman Brian Briggs describes the album as, “Discovering what it is to be...
Oxford, UK's Stornoway are currently in town , playing Maxwell's tonight (5/3, tickets ) and Music Hall of Williamsburg on Monday (5/6, tickets ). On Saturday (5/4), they're going to spend the afternoon on a musical pub crawl , playing acoustic sets at four different drinking establishments in Manhattan and Brooklyn: 2 PM at Jimmys No.43 in the East Village, 3 PM at The Ear Inn in SoHo, then 4:30 PM at The Drink and finally 6 PM at Legion Bar , both [...]
Last night, Field Report and Stornaway played at Kung Fu Necktie . Our photographer Chris Sikich was on site to capture the vibes.
Stornoway have just revealed the new video for their upcoming single The Big Picture , taken from the group’s second studio album Tales of Terra Firma released earlier this year. Featuring old footage from the tiny island of St Kilda in the British Isles, the video shows a reenactment of the Lover’s Stone ritual, where young St Kilda men would have to balance precauriously on the 55m-high rock to prove their head for heights, before they would be allowed to work as believe it or not, ‘bird catchers’ for the cliffs. It’s [...]
Oxfordian folk / pop group Stornoway headline Kung Fu Neckti e tonight. Following up their 2010 debut Beachcomber's Windowsill , the academically-minded quartet (led by an ornithologist) released Tales from Terra Firma earlier this month. Field Report continue to tour in support of last year's self-titled debut. Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show can be found here . Watch Stornoway's video for "Knock Me On the Head" below. Several local musicians come together at The Blockley tonight for a concert benefiting Lentil Fest. [...]
Chona Kasinger Next week is a pretty big week for new album releases, particularly if you're favourably inclined towards records coming out of the UK, which means that this week is a pretty big week for advance album streams. And while it's not the one that everyone will tell you you should be paying attention to, Still Corners' second record Strange Pleasures is one you shouldn't overlook - particularly if you assumed you knew what they were all about from their 2011 debut Creatures Of [...]
After posting on Facebook about their arrival to Philadelphia earlier this morning, Oxford's Stornoway shared the new video for "The Bigger Picture." The song comes from the folk / pop band's latest Tales From Terra Firma LP and the video depicts sweeping landscape shots and photographs taken from The Evacuation of St. Kilda , courtesy of The National Library of Scotland. St. Kilda is the outermost island group in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, which also lays claim to Stornoway's namesake town. Tickets and information for the band's show at [...]
Frontman Brian Briggs describes Stornaway's new recording as "as an album full of stories about rites of passage."
Wisconsin's Field Report have been added as support to Stornoway 's Kung Fu Necktie show, bringing the folk project of Chris Porterfield back to Philadelphia in support of their 2012 debut album. Tickets and information for the 21+ show on Thursday, May 2nd are available here . Listen back to Field Report's appearance on World Cafe here and watch their Out Of Town Films video for "Fergus Falls" below, recorded during last year's XPoNential Music Festival.
Originally featured on Eaten by Monsters Miserablist is a potent genre within the wider spectrum of ‘indie music’, and it's a rich seam that bands hailing from the dreaming spires of Oxford have long mined to great effect. Even seen a Radiohead fan smile? Even seen Foals crack a joke? Their po-faced brand of ‘serious’ rock for ‘serious’ aficionados has proved to be a winner with music buyers and music critics alike; a not inconsiderable accomplishment, and not one to be scoffed at. Stornoway , by contrast, [...]
“I have a theory that no one comes to see the support do spoken word poetry…” He is probably right, but opener Rex Domino is remorseless. “… so gutted!” A capella rap number one closes on a crowd pleasing line – “fuck the Olympics”. Whether there were other quotes to provoke such cheers is difficult to tell. Spluttering at such a speed, he was difficult to follow. He is then joined by a flautist, who is his polar opposite. She doesn’t look or sound as though she wants to be there, and seems mildly irritated that Rex is [...]
This Oxford-based band take their name from the Scottish town of Stornoway on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and I’m not sure if that’s a sleepy little town or what but this music definitely reflects what a sleepy town would sound like. With soothing folk-like guitar melodies and calming vocals the self-recorded “Tales From Terra Firma” is a great second album from the guys. The album opens with the uplifting “You Take Me As I Am” and is a great start. The warm melody sets you up to expect quite a few treasures from the album. And with [...]
Stornoway’s second album, Tales From Terra Firma , is a sweepingly ambitious follow-up to their 2010 debut, Beachcomber’s Windowsill . In their sophomore effort, the British indie folk band tackle big-picture themes like love, death, and the meaning of life – there’s even a song called, appropriately, “The Bigger Picture.” Like indie folk standouts Fleet Foxes and Mumford and Sons, Stornoway’s music is filled with a yearning for earlier, simpler times (From album opener “You Take Me As I Am”: “You imagine yourself living with no phone or electricity”). Throughout the album, dulcimer, harpsichord, autoharp, mandolin, [...]
The songs do contain obscure chords, a few challenging rhythms and some extremely unlikely instruments.
Words and photos by guest reviewer Lennon Gregory English indie folk band Stornoway put on a mystic performance at the HMV Forum last week, performing songs off their new album ‘Tales from Terra Firma’ (Carrie's review of it here ), as well as a selection of songs off their 2010 album ‘Beachcomber’s Windowsill’. Having discarded their underlying attempt of punky riffs which peppered their old album, they have perfected their light-hearted folk sound producing a more successful album and individual sound. [...]
Mark Seliger Apologies for going for the low-hanging fruit with this one, but I don't have the time or energy to squeeze out something more interesting. So you get this. And pro tip: providing a current photo with credit really goes a long way towards leading off a post. Anyways, The Rolling Stones - perhaps you've heard of them - finally announced their long-rumoured, basically inevitable 50th anniversary North American tour yesterday, and while it's only nine dates long, at least for now, Toronto makes the cut - the Stones will be [...]
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