Pre-Order: Stornoway – Beyonder – Random Solid Colour Eco Vinyl [Colored Vinyl]

Fresh from selling out London’s Royal Albert Hall, Stornoway return with Beyonder – their most ambitious album to date. Out 25 September via Cooking Vinyl, the record expands the band’s sound while holding onto the melodic warmth and sense of wonder that has long defined their music.The album began in one of the most remote corners of the UK. While volunteering as a National Trust ranger on St Kilda, 100 kilometres west of the Outer Hebrides, frontman Brian Briggs spent weeks living among the island’s towering sea cliffs, seabird colonies and abandoned settlements. The experience – standing on the edge of the Atlantic with nothing between the island and Canada – sparked the first songs that would become Beyonder. A photograph taken there now forms the album cover.”Never have I been anywhere so wild and exposed, and never have I felt more alive,” Briggs says of the experience. The stark landscape and the island’s layered history – where centuries-old b