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Stornoway win Xfm’s new music prize
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 11 February 2011
Stornoway have taken the 2011 Xfm New Music Award for their debut album ‘Beachcomber’s Windowsill’, which is nice, for them.
The radio stations’ Deputy PD and chief music man Mike Walsh told Radio Today: “This is an album of true warmth and sincerity. Our judges were impressed by the honesty and openness of the record and how well it worked as a whole album”.
The 4AD-signed indie folky types fought off other shortlisted albums by Delphic, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Everything Everything, Fenech-Soler, Hurts, Kele, Marina And The Diamonds, Sound Of Guns and Two Door Cinema Club to take the overall prize.