I wrote about the Hey Elbow album last week, a complex, twisting album that was certainly genre defying, but also played around with...

We’re heading towards our 6th birthday, drowning slightly under the weight of new releases, but appropriately there’s a nice collection...

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...

Anything happening in the world today? Nope? Good, so here’s something a little bit different, and certainly a complete contrast with the...

Sweden’s Oscar – Soul Experience is a band put together by young Oscar Ögren specifically for the purpose of playing live and that has...

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...

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...

Norwegian city Bergen is probably our most frequently mentioned city in Nordic Music Review, yet if you consider its size, in reality it...

''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

We talk about ‘dark’ and ‘ethereal’ quite often in NMR and many Nordic artists do have that blackness about them, especially Siv Jakobsen...

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...

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 /...

I wrote about Icelandic band Suð back in 2016 when they suddenly reappeared with an album entitled ‘Meira Suð’. It was a welcome return...

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...

Sweden’s Skott released her debut album, ‘Always live for always’ on 26th June, a couple of weeks later than scheduled. We covered a...

We found out yesterday that Finnish post rock band ‘Ghosts on TV’ had signed to Helsinki label Soliti, and it was a reminder that...

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...

We get a fair few highly produced releases sent in our direction, often with big PR machines behind them. The new album ‘Slippery...

We’ve covered Yune (not to be confused with the also featured Lune) a few times over the last 12 months, but the good news is that their...

I don’t know about anywhere else, but it’s been a ‘scorcher’ here in the UK today, the hottest day of the year, with perfect sunny skies...