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Stornoway stream new single ‘The Road You Didn’t Take’ | New album out 13th April 2015‏

January 8, 2015

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The opening single from their forthcoming third album
Out Monday 16th Feb 2015

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Stornoway are back with their forthcoming third album (title TBA) out 13th AprilStornoway set off on the new album campaign trail with the other-worldly sounds of The Road You Didn’t Take.

At the close of the second album campaign Stornoway songwriter and singer Dr. Brian Briggsfound his notebook empty, he and his young family picked up sticks and moved to the Gower Peninsula in Wales, perhaps once of Britain’s last wildernesses.

Briggs and Stornoway have always harnessed the power of the great outdoors for perspective and The Gower brought Brian nothing short of panoramic, HD, clarity. It brought the three part harmonies that open the song to Brian in a dream, pushed him to experiment with Celtic tuning for the guitar riff and it was on The Gower that Brian was reminded of the 1916 poem by Robert Frost The Road Not Taken, which had a huge influence on this song.

Redolent with their customary chamber-folk The Road resonates with ethereal layers of choral voices (reminiscent of Romanian intertwining harmonies), cascading melodies like waterfalls, shimmering cymbals, tremulous guitars and Brian’s voice is as pure and clear as a mountain stream.

Stornoway’s third album will be released in the UK on Monday 13th April. It promises to be loaded with the band’s keenest pop sensibilities yet and for the first time the band worked with a producer, rock recording legend Gil Norton to help add muscle and focus to their sound.

Stornoway tour the UK with their new album during 2015

2015 Tour Dates

27th March – Hall For Cornwall, Truro (Tickets)

21st April – Engine Rooms, Southampton (Tickets)
22nd April – Sub 89, Reading (Tickets)
23rd April – Islington Assembly Hall, London (Tickets)
25th April – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (Tickets)
28th April – Junction, Cambridge (Tickets
29th April – Waterfront, Norwich (Tickets)
30th April – Art School, Glasgow (Tickets)

1st May – Riverside, Newcastle (Tickets)
2nd May – Town Hall, Live at Leeds (Tickets)
6th May – Globe, Cardiff (Tickets)
7th May – Gorilla, Manchester (Tickets
8th May – Leadmill, Sheffield (Tickets
9th May – Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (Tickets)
16th May – Museums At Night, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (Tickets)

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