I have heard it before. But so what? I had never heard anything like Metal Machine Music and that was shit. Furthermore, the folk tag is a bit misleading. While some of the songs do sound like the work of unionised 1950s farm hands, with their massed harmonising vocals, picked banjos and messages about free-expression and brotherly love (‘We Are The Battery Human’, ‘Here Comes The Blackout’), for the most part Stornoway’s suburban bedroom-indie roots out themselves, with melodies that wouldn’t go astray on a Belle and Sebastian album, rhythm tracks that wouldn’t be lost on an Arcade Fire record, and themes and metaphors that are plucked straight from the ‘burbs. Indeed, after a few listens the middle-English accent and folk trappings are distilled away and what’s left in the memory is a batch of decent guitar-pop tunes delivered with conviction. Good on ‘em.