STORNOWAY, Beyonder
- Artist
- STORNOWAY
- Title
- Beyonder
- Label
- Cooking Vinyl
- Catalogue number
- LPCOOK976C
- Format
- Vinyl
- Genre
- Indie/Alternative
- Price
- £29.99
- Availability
- In stock, only 1 left
D2C Store Exclusive Eco Mix Vinyl. Includes signed & numbered obi strip + postcard insert. Fresh from their sold-out Royal Albert Hall show - the biggest headline performance of their career - Stornoway return with their most ambitious album yet. BEYONDER, out 25 September on Cooking Vinyl, an album of wild hope, born from isolation, exploration, and a deep connection to the natural world. The journey began on Britain’s highest sea cliffs. On St Kilda, 100 km west of the Outer Hebrides, frontman Brian Briggs stood 430 metres above the Atlantic with no land between him and Canada. Surrounded by wheeling fulmars and dive-bombing skuas, he recalls: “I was in their world, I couldn’t survive here for long.” A photograph he took that day now forms the album cover and marks the start of a creative rebirth. Volunteering as a National Trust ranger by day and writing by night, Briggs absorbed the island’s stark contrasts: abandoned blackhouses built by a community that lived sustainably for 4,000 years, alongside a modern military base watching the same horizon. That tension, between nature and geopolitics, fragility and resilience, runs through BEYONDER, shaping songs that speak to both the wild and the human heart. By the time Stornoway took the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall, they were standing at a different kind of edge, not just geographically, but artistically. What began on a remote Atlantic outpost has evolved into their most open-hearted record yet: a collection of songs about exploration, belonging, fragility, and resilience, powered by the natural world yet speaking directly to modern life, and mixed by Grammy award wining Oli Jacobs (Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975). With BEYONDER, Stornoway continue to lead the conversation between music and conservation, proving that the pulse of nature can resonate through song, and through us all. It’s a record for anyone who has ever longed to feel both the wildness of the world and the strength of being alive.
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