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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...
andyworsey
Nov 26, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 19, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 19, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 16, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 13, 20203 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 5, 20203 min read


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...
andyworsey
Nov 3, 20204 min read


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...
andyworsey
Oct 30, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Sep 29, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Sep 7, 20203 min read


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...
andyworsey
Sep 5, 20203 min read


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
andyworsey
Aug 25, 20206 min read


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...
andyworsey
Aug 23, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Aug 12, 20201 min read


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 /...
andyworsey
Jul 24, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Jul 12, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Jul 4, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Jul 2, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Jun 26, 20202 min read


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...
andyworsey
Jun 17, 20203 min read
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