Sometimes you read a press release about an artist and the various analogies they come up with and can’t reconcile them. In this case it’...

I really enjoyed getting to know the Hey Elbow album, but it was a little ‘chewy’ in places, so here’s a catchy number that’s much quicke...

A high percentage of singer songwriters seem to perform now under a ‘nom de plume’, which does intrigue me. Some have obvious Nordic conn...

We’ve written about Swedish rock 'n apocalyptic post-industrial neofolk rockers Orochen previously, and maybe their dark perspective on t...

I’ve no idea quite where Soap Detox have suddenly appeared from, or where they’ve been hiding, but their sudden arrival on Friday, armed w...

As the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish says, “peculiar times spawn peculiar ideas, and that`s exactly what our beloved Crew has be...

One of the Nordic contingent who’ve already released music inspired by The Outlaw Ocean project is the young Norwegian producer Jakob Ein...

I wrote about Code Elektro yesterday and it’s always lovely to hear from artists / bands we featured way ‘back in the day’. I should do a...

So here’s something a little different, but it seems appropriate for a quiet Sunday evening somehow. Inga Björk is a songwriter from Hafn...

The young Swede Ellen Krauss has turned up in these pages previously as she has successively released tracks from her new EP 'Pearl' whic...

Moyka (Monika Engeseth) is an artist I missed at the Øya Festival last year but shortly afterwards reviewed a single, ‘Bones’ which is ex...

I finished last week by writing about Dog, Paper, Submarine, possibly my personal favourite album of the year to date, and I didn’t reali...

I’ve written about Danish / Iranian musician Mazdak Khosravi a few times previously, originally when he was part of the Black Dog Howl du...

Ruben Dawnson sounds like he could be British but he’s a young Norwegian who explores anxiety, loneliness and fear in his songs while als...

In times of turbulence I increasingly reach for music that reassures the mind, and after a turbulent week the discovery of a new Loyal Li...

This EP came out in March but we just became aware of it. Áslaug is an Icelandic-Dutch indie pop artist who recently released her debut s...

I need a hazy, distant place I can escape to today. Some days I’m happy to confront this ‘thing’ the world is facing head on, but not tod...

We have 2 Non Nordic selections this week, although it could be argued that Army of Moths have so many Nordic music connections, they cou...

One of my favourite places for randomly discovering new artists was always Bandcamp, and given the platform has done a pretty good job of...

We try to cover a reasonable share of what I would describe as Contemporary Classical compositions, and I would write about more of them ...