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NMR Indie Playlist


'Melba Vision' - 'Favours for Favours' (EP)
The moment we tire of getting submissions from Nordic bands we haven't previously come across with full EPs and Albums to get stuck into...
Andy Wors
Jan 30, 20192 min read


In Short: Júníus Meyvant - 'Across the Borders' (album)
I'm not going to write too much about the new Júníus Meyvant album, because I do think that it will get covered in a fair few other...
Andy Wors
Jan 29, 20192 min read


Introducing.... 'A. Bird' with track 'Easy'
Our focus on Albums and EP's continues, later we'll have a short Junius Meyvant review, and there's releases by Jon-Olov Woxlin,...
Andy Wors
Jan 29, 20191 min read


Album of the Week: 'Pelicat' - Pelicat' (album)
Well we're almost feeling relevant reviewing Albums actually released in the last week, and after the intense textures of 'Hidden Land'...
Andy Wors
Jan 28, 20192 min read


'Loyal Liar' - 'For the Sharks That Roam Below' (album)
The number of Nordic album releases in our diary for February and March is pretty extraordinary, and we know for each one on our list,...
Andy Wors
Jan 26, 20192 min read


'Hidden Land' - 'Perspectives' (album)
We never expect that those songwriters and bands we write about are truly 100% Nordic in their origin. We've even considered a complete...
Andy Wors
Jan 25, 20193 min read


Introducing...'Little Birds' with 'Know You Better' (video)
Unfortunately we've had to content with 'Staff Illness' this week, which has delayed a couple of new artist introductions in the run up...
Andy Wors
Jan 25, 20191 min read


Introducing... 'FRI5K' - 'Where The Roses Grow' (single)
There is a great selection of Albums / EP's being released next Friday 25th ('Pelicat' and 'Novel-Fae' amongst others), but we think...
Andy Wors
Jan 18, 20191 min read


'Through the Canopy' - 'Descension' (EP)
We've covered a range of Albums / EPs in our previous feature, but there is one new releases which has sneaked out on Tuesday of this...
Andy Wors
Jan 16, 20192 min read


NMR Album / EP Round-Up (volume 1)!
So welcome to a new (probably bi-weekly) feature for 2019, where we briefly feature any Albums / EP's we haven't had chance to write a...
Andy Wors
Jan 16, 20193 min read


Árstíðir - UK TOUR! Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, London!
There's still a steady stream of good Nordic gigs in the UK if you look hard enough, and one band that we're particularly excited to see...
Andy Wors
Jan 15, 20191 min read


'Select Captain' - 'Off to Save the World' (album)
Of course we'll never catch up on everything we missed in 2018, but we're doing our best to cover a selection of the Autumn / Winter...
Andy Wors
Jan 14, 20192 min read


In Short: 'Les Big Byrd' - 'Iran Iraq IKEA' (album) + Live at Tapetown!
We're making progress through a list of albums we missed in the latter parts of 2018, and we've featured some slightly leftfield releases...
Andy Wors
Jan 12, 20192 min read


'Vestbo Trio' - 'Gentlemen...' (album)
We featured the Swedish improvisation outfit 'Trio Ramberget' yesterday, and we'll keep with the 'trio'; theme with a few words about...
Andy Wors
Jan 11, 20192 min read


'Jiji Moon' - 'Jiji Moon' (EP)
We're starting to make an inroad into our 2018 backlog, so it's time to start slipping in some brand new 'hot off the shelf' releases. ...
Andy Wors
Jan 11, 20192 min read


'Trio Ramberget' - 'Musik att somna till' (album)
We try to cover a wide range of musical styles at Nordic Music Review, and we've had a few ambient / minimalist style submissions...
Andy Wors
Jan 10, 20192 min read


Svavar Knútur - 'Ahoy! Side A' (album)
Similarly to Sara Forslund, we last wrote about Svavar Knútur a few years back - in 2015 when he released his album ‘Brot (The Breaking)'....
Andy Wors
Jan 10, 20193 min read


'Sara Forslund' - 'Summer is Like A Swallow' (album)
Hopefully our longer term readers will remember that we've written about Sara Forslund a few times, most notably when she released her...
Andy Wors
Jan 10, 20193 min read
Coming Soon..... Album Reviews...
Coming soon.... a longish Sara Forslund album review, and slightly shorter reviews of Svavar Knutur and the Michael Vestbo trio too...
Andy Wors
Jan 9, 20191 min read


'Folke Nikanor' - 'Bottenviken' (album)
I don't like to make excuses or point fingers of blame at people who've created even greater delays to our already highly inefficient...
Andy Wors
Jan 7, 20192 min read
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