The band debuted its jangly, largely acoustic sound — which has drawn comparisons to James, Belle & Sebastian and XTC — with a self-titled EP that included the song “Zorbing,” which was inspired by and named after the sport of rolling down a hill in a transparent sphere. Another early single was 2007’s “The Good Fish Guide,” a musical list of which fish are plentiful to eat and which are endangered; its profits went to the Marine Conservation Society. Stornoway continued to refine their sound and had a breakthrough 2009: they headlined the BBC Introducing stage at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend that May and officially released “Zorbing,” which included Briggs’ brother Adam on trumpet, as a single that July.