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NMR Indie Playlist


Rural Tapes (Norway) – ‘Rural Tapes’ (album, including the title track Rural Tapes)
I’ve long anticipated the day when I could write that; the title track from the artist’s eponymous debut album. When we last paid a visit...
David Bentley
Apr 30, 20213 min read
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Pihka Is My Name (Finland) - ‘Everything Is In Between’ (album)
It’s not often that I take musical recommendations from British newspaper The Sunday Sport, but they’ve got it pretty much right with...
Andy Wors
Apr 2, 20212 min read
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Tortusa (Norway): Bre (title track from album)
After yesterday’s Daði Freyr and his Icelandic monster that looked like something out of the video for The Birdie Song by The Tweets, I...
David Bentley
Mar 30, 20212 min read
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The Walter Metsärinne EP (Finland) - ‘Never In Control’ (Album)
I repeat the same phrase so many times, but Tim Smith was right, it really is ‘all about the tunes’. And Finnish multi-instrumentalist...
Andy Wors
Mar 23, 20213 min read
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Sibille Attar (Sweden) - ‘A History of Silence’ (album)
We’ve covered some impressive album releases in 2021, and whilst comparisons are somewhat vulgar given the diversity of styles we feature...
Andy Wors
Mar 15, 20214 min read
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Lydmor (Denmark): Capacity (album)
If anyone in the music business merits the adjective ‘enigmatic’ it is Lydmor. Her previous album ranged over her inscrutable affairs and...
David Bentley
Mar 12, 20218 min read
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Volcano Victims (Iceland) - ‘Volcano Victims’ (album)
Back to album releases, and I have a fair few to cover off. I’ve written about Icelandic songwriter Gaui before, his Volcano Victims...
Andy Wors
Mar 2, 20212 min read
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Sturle Dagsland (Norway) - ‘Sturle Dagsland’ (album)
We try to write about a wide range of musical styles and genres, And whilst I don’t like categorising artists really, I think we all do...
Andy Wors
Feb 25, 20212 min read
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Gurli Octavia (Denmark) - 'I Could Be Blossoming Instead' (Debut album)
By necessity this must be a long review. It is impossible to do justice to this lady and her first album in a couple of hundred words. It...
David Bentley
Jan 28, 20218 min read
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Axel Flóvent (Iceland) - ‘You Stay by the Sea’ (album)
We’ve written about Axel Flóvent numerous times over recent years, but as Dan pointed out in his Artists to Watch in 2021 feature, he’s...
Andy Wors
Jan 25, 20212 min read
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DOPHA (Denmark) - 'The Game' (album)
Citing Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift as inspiration, it’s no surprise that this debut album from Danish artist DOPHA (released today,...
Dan Cromb
Jan 22, 20212 min read
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Jon-Olov Woxlin (Sweden) - The Great Unknown (album)
My New Years resolution is to review more Nordic album releases, even if I have to keep them relatively brief, so I can hardly ignore a...
Andy Wors
Jan 13, 20213 min read
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The Cosmic Rabbit Holes - ‘The World is Drugs’ (album)
I’m still thinking about the stuff I missed in 2020, although the reality is that the wealth of music out there is so vast I could still...
Andy Wors
Jan 5, 20213 min read
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Sea Lion - ‘I Heard there’s Music on the Town’ (album)
Writing about my Singles and Albums of the Year, and reading lots of other lists on different websites, is actually a pretty sobering...
Andy Wors
Jan 2, 20213 min read
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Faratuben - ‘Sira Kura’ (vinyl release)
We don’t normally cover re-releases, but wanted to give a quick mention to Faratuben, a project which brings together musicians from...
Andy Wors
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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Das Body – 'Peregrine' (album)
So who is the bird of prey, then? I take it they are referring to lofty, gangly-limbed singer and occasional bassist Ellie Linden, whose...
David Bentley
Dec 11, 20206 min read
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Mayflower Madame - Ludwig Meidner (single / video from album ‘Prepared For A Nightmare’)
I suspect that Mayflower Madame are probably named after the infamous New York escort agency owner Sydney Biddle Barrows rather than the...
Andy Wors
Dec 10, 20202 min read
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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...
Andy Wors
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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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...
Andy Wors
Nov 19, 20202 min read
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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...
David Bentley
Nov 19, 20202 min read
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