Stornoway: Beachcomber's Windowsill | CD Review

Rock'n'roll they aren't (they really, really aren't) but Stornoway's skill with the little details – musical and lyrical – is a delight, says Alexis PetridisBitter experience suggests only the foolhardy journalist makes rash judgments about an album's capacity to win awards. A multitude of factors warn against doing so: rock and pop music moves at a dizzying pace; the public is capricious and its appetites are almost impossible to accurately predict; and, in the case of the Mercury Music pr...

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