Cooking Vinyl has signed Oxford indie-folk stars Stornoway in a worldwide artist services deal.

The deal covers the band's recently announced third album, Bonxie, and future material.

Due for release April 13, the album was funded via PledgeMusic, managing 222% of its target in just four days. Bonxie is named after a Hebridean seabird native to the Stornoway area; the record is themed around birds, from its artwork to the 20 different birdsongs on its tracks, with frontman Brian Briggs fittingly holding a ...