Bonxie (album)

Bonxie
Studio album by
Released13 April 2015 (2015-04-13)
GenreIndie rock
Length44:42
LabelCooking Vinyl
Stornoway chronology
Tales from Terra Firma
(2013)
Bonxie
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Bonxie is the third studio album by British indie rock band Stornoway. It was released in April 2015 under Cooking Vinyl. The title refers to the great skua seabird, which in Shetland is colloquially referred to as a bonxie. It is one of several references to birds on the album, which also includes birdsong on many of the tracks, in a nod to lead singer Brian Briggs' academic background in ornithology and his love of birds in general.[3]

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  2. ^ Monger, Timothy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. ^ Briggs, Brian (10 July 2015). "Stornoway singer Brian Briggs: my favourite British bird songs". The Guardian.