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STORNOWAY confirm Dec 2nd Bowery Ballroom show! 10 Aug 2010
Today marks the full US release of Beachomber's Windowsill, the debut album from Oxford's Stornoway.
Beachomber's Windowsill was previously released in the UK and debuted on their charts at #14. The NME called it "beautifully rendered and melodically magnificent" and Q Magazine have called the band, "Brit-folk's new great hope."
Stornoway features Brian Briggs (guitar, vox), Jonathan Ouin (keys, strings) and brothers Ollie and Rob Steadman on bass and drums respectively. Live, the core four-piece are bolstered by the addition of Brian's brother Adam Briggs on brass and Rahul Satija playing violin. The 6 of them made a brief trip to the States to play 3 very special NYC shows in early July - their first ever US dates!
Now, New Yorkers who missed seeing them play can rejoice - the band are now confirmed to come back and perform at New York's Bowery Ballroom on December 2nd!
Stay tuned, as more US tour dates are on the horizon!
""Fuel Up", a lovely meditation on the passage of time viewed through the lens of a series of road trips, is like Briggs' doctoral thesis on Ray Davies Melancholy. "Zorbing" and "I Saw You Blink" breeze by with the insouciance of Boy With the Arab Strap-era Belle and Sebastian..." Pitchfork
The New video for "Watching Birds" is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQzwU_imT0&feature=player_embedded
You can also watch the video for their single "Zorbing" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjG4dUlucVw
UK press loves Stornoway!
"Poignant and enduring" The Observer
"Stornoway tug at every emotional fibre in the body" NME
"Our new favourite band" The Guardian
"The first great album of the summer" The Times
"Truly billows the heart" The Telegraph
"It's hard not to be felled by the utter gorgeousness of this record" BBC
"Like a blast of sea air that hits you as you alight an overnight train" Mojo
"'Watching Birds' is surely the most vibrant song ever written" Financial Times