Stornoway review – really wild show

The Junction, Cambridge
The Oxford folk group’s nature-suffused material yields shivering, breathtaking moments aplenty liveA foghorn cuts through the stage mist, heralding a night that’s half alt-folk party, half nature reserve. The trills, squawks and chirrups of red grouse, loons and skylarks flock around pastoral pop songs: a marsh’s love song to the ocean (Between the Saltmarsh and the Sea), a hiking metaphor for life’s regrets (The Road You Didn’t Take) or a tramp through America