Beachcomber's Windowsill

Newly signed 4AD band, Stornoway, are set to release Beachcomber's Windowsill on August 10. The album has taken more than five years to make; a labor of love that includes over a hundred different instruments, the chimes of a Dutch church bell, one Morse Code message and the sound of several carrots being chopped. It is an album that features as many bedrooms as there are songs, as well as ruminations on the computer age, ornithology and first love.There is something about Stornoway that inspires a feverish devotion; an adoration conjured by the charm of their songs, and the kind of rousing