Kevin Bronson on December 13th, 2010

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It’s been a good year for folk music out of the U.K. – Mumford & Sons became headline attractions, and they along with Villagers and Laura Marling were nominated for the Mercury Prize. In their wake comes Oxford quartet Stornoway, whose debut album “Beachcomber’s Windowsill” was released earlier this year on 4AD. Among other twangy goodness, singer-songwriter Brian Briggs authors a finger-pickin’ tome to life in the digital age that makes the Internet sound almost pastoral: “We need to fix our loose connection / out in the natural World Wide Web,” he sings in “We Are the Battery Human.”

||| Download: “Zorbing” [audio:http://www.mediafire.com/file/rpfzr5kgrkg89rq/Stornoway%20-Zorbing.mp3]

||| Live: Stornoway plays tonight at the Troubadour.

Photo by J. J. Bullock