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Apr 13, 2015It amounts to Stornoway’s best work yet: big music, which deserves the largest stage.
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Jul 28, 2015Their best work yet--there isn’t a weak track among the 11.
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MojoApr 22, 2015It's Bronxie's heart, soul and natural world-inspired epiphanies that charm most. [May 2015, p.96]
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2015If some of Stornoway's folkier past has been lost in transition, then so be it. Fortunately, the conceptual nods to birdlife on every song from chief songwriter and rained ornithologist Brian Biggs compensate by finding a mainstream-friendly alternative. [May 2014, p.112]
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Apr 13, 2015More accessible yet no less honest than their first two records, Bonxie is an expansion of Stornoway's best attributes.
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Apr 29, 2015There is no ignoring the allusions to the natural world. And with big orchestration and even bigger ambition, the band were able to show just how we are only a small part of something much bigger.
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Apr 13, 2015Bonxie doesn’t contain too many surprises, and it doesn’t really have many answers to the bigger questions, but it does have a number of brilliantly written songs.
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Apr 13, 2015Mumford & Sons-style tunes are still part of the package, but Man on Wire possesses a depth absent from their old songs, while the highlight, Between the Saltmarsh and the Sea, is a sumptuous fusion of folk and electronica.
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