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Stornoway is a British alternative indie folk band from the Cowley area of Oxford. Musically, they are a remarkably deft bunch, folding in a conservatory’s worth of instruments— barrelhouse piano, jazzy horncharts, banjo plonking, chamber strings and Celtic fiddles, spidery celesta— into their fleet, coursing songs without bogging down the melodic line or sounding burdened by fussiness. Ollie Steadman plays his bass like a melody instrument, and Ouin’s organ lines dance in and out of the periphery like a particularly animated supporting character you keep wishing would return. Rob Steadman’s careful, sensitive drumming on “On the Rocks” helps anchor an otherwise formless tune from drifting into oblivion.

Tracks

1. Zorbing
2. I Saw You Blink
3. Fuel Up
4. The Coldharbour Road
5. Boats And Trains
6. We Are The Battery Human
7. Here Comes The Blackout
8. Watching Birds
9. On The Rocks
10. The End Of The Movie
11. Long Distance Lullaby

Debuting last year with Eyelid Movies, Phantogram brought trip-hop and dream pop together with heavy rhythms and twilight-lit melodies. The street beat comes back sounding even more effortlessly smooth with the release of their Nightlife EP on November 1st, 2011. Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter, the New York-based electronic pop duo keeps their rhythms upbeat and melodies as haunting as they are beautiful.

Tracks

1. 16 Years
   
2. Don’t Move
3. Turning Into Stone
4. Make A Fist
5. Nightlife
6. A Dark Tunnel