Andy Wors
Urtidsdjur - ‘Vandringssång’ (single from self titled album)
We have a massive range of music to cover over the next 24 hours, appropriate given it’s our 6th birthday, and we hope to feature as many...
NMR Indie Playlist
Andy Wors
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Henriette Sennenvaldt - ‘Very Fantastic’ (from album ‘Something Wonderful’)
It’s Thursday night and if the world has already got a little too much for you this week and you want to hideaway from everything and...
David Bentley
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly – Alone Together (track from album of the same name)
Sorry folks, I’m well behind with this one, over two months, but I felt obliged to include it because there are few people keeping...
Andy Wors
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Kenichi & The Sun - ‘A Tale Unfolds’ (from new album ‘White Fire’)
I wrote about the Hey Elbow album last week, a complex, twisting album that was certainly genre defying, but also played around with...
Andy Wors
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
She’s A Sailor - ‘Do You Want Us To Play’ (album)
We’re heading towards our 6th birthday, drowning slightly under the weight of new releases, but appropriately there’s a nice collection...
Andy Wors
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Red Barnett - ‘Astronauts’ (album)
Iceland is spoiling us this week, and I don’t just mean in their new selection of Chicken Satay Noodles. Of course the variety of music...
Andy Wors
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
Hringfari - Hringfari (album)
Anything happening in the world today? Nope? Good, so here’s something a little bit different, and certainly a complete contrast with the...
David Bentley
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Oscar – Soul Experience: Oh Oh (track from debut album, out now)
Sweden’s Oscar – Soul Experience is a band put together by young Oscar Ögren specifically for the purpose of playing live and that has...
Andy Wors
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
The Sugarrush - ‘High Status’ (album)
There’s been a rush of new albums being released in the last few weeks, and one of those we haven’t yet mentioned is the new album 'High...
Andy Wors
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Club K - ‘191202’ (album)
We’ve covered a range of styles this last week, but I don’t think we’ve featured any bands that fit within the Indie Pop spectrum, at...
Andy Wors
- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
Silja Sol - På ekte (album)
Norwegian city Bergen is probably our most frequently mentioned city in Nordic Music Review, yet if you consider its size, in reality it...
David Bentley
- Aug 25, 2020
- 6 min
Siv Jakobsen – A Temporary Soothing (album)
''If this album doesn’t turn Siv Jakobsen into the international star she should be I’ll swim a fjord, in winter, naked.'' - David Bentley
David Bentley
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min
Non-Nordic Sunday: Polly Scattergood – After You (track from recently released album)
We talk about ‘dark’ and ‘ethereal’ quite often in NMR and many Nordic artists do have that blackness about them, especially Siv Jakobsen...
Andy Wors
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Holiday Listening #2. Matti Jasu - ‘Up & Running’ (album)
I didn’t have chance to write a review of the new Matti Jasu album ‘Up & Running’, before our annual holiday, and which was released last...
Andy Wors
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
Gösta Berlings Saga - ‘Konkret Music’ (album)
I can’t deny that this week has been devastatingly sad for those of who knew and loved Tim Smith’s music. The composer / songwriter /...
Andy Wors
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
Suð - ‘Shakin’ (from album ‘Vesen’)
I wrote about Icelandic band Suð back in 2016 when they suddenly reappeared with an album entitled ‘Meira Suð’. It was a welcome return...
Andy Wors
- Jul 4, 2020
- 2 min
Mallemuk - ‘Udpint Fedt’ (track from self titled debut album)
When I can really choose what music I want to stream around my house, I have to admit that top of the list wouldn’t bands like be The...
David Bentley
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Skott – ‘My Name’ (focus single from album ‘Always Live for Always’)
Sweden’s Skott released her debut album, ‘Always live for always’ on 26th June, a couple of weeks later than scheduled. We covered a...
Andy Wors
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
Ghosts on TV - ‘I Am Not Dead, I Am 55 Today’ (album)
We found out yesterday that Finnish post rock band ‘Ghosts on TV’ had signed to Helsinki label Soliti, and it was a reminder that...
Andy Wors
- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
Me & Munich - Gaslighting (album)
My attempts to write about ‘quiet music’ lasted about a day, but there is rather a hefty stream of ‘noise rock’ style releases in our...