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Ocelot (Finland) – Unelmoi (EP)
Two tracks from this, Ocelot’s second full length EP, were featured as singles in NMR in 2020, namely ‘Perhosia’ and ‘Simpukka.’ The...
andyworsey
Feb 12, 20212 min read


VAR (Iceland) - ‘Live at Orgelsmidjan’ (EP)
One album I did miss last year was the appropriately titled ‘The Never-Ending Year’ by Icelandic band VAR, whom we did give some coverage...
andyworsey
Jan 28, 20212 min read


Veiv (Sweden) - ‘A, It’s for Me’ (from EP ‘Beehive’)
As always there’s a good selection of new Nordic releases tomorrow, but Swedish band Veiv have sneaked in a day early with the release of...
andyworsey
Jan 21, 20211 min read


LE LAC LONG 814 (Sweden): La casquette / Mössan (EP)
Mais non, le NMR n’est pas devenu une magazine française seulement pour l’homme qui pense. Readers may recall the central Swedish duo of...
andyworsey
Jan 20, 20213 min read


Treemer (Finland) - ‘Storm’ (EP)
Finnish band Treemer appeared on the scene late in 2019 when they released an EP entitled ‘Meeting’, and their new EP ‘Storm’ is a very...
andyworsey
Jan 16, 20212 min read


Non Nordic Sunday: OSKA - ‘Misunderstood’ (from EP ‘Honeymoon Phase’’)
I’m wondering if it’s possible to cover 50 different countries across the year through our Non Nordic Sunday features. I certainly don’t...
andyworsey
Jan 10, 20211 min read


LE LAC LONG 814 - La Boîte (EP)
Well, NMR is fast becoming the home of the unusual and LE LAC LONG 814 does not easily fit any categorisation. LE LAC LONG 814 is a...
andyworsey
Dec 24, 20202 min read


This Heel - ‘Holes in the Primary World’ (EP)
We’ve mentioned that new releases are slowing up as we approach the end of the year, but of course I’d briefly forgotten about This Heel,...
andyworsey
Dec 8, 20202 min read


Jelena Ćirić – Shelters One (EP)
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...
andyworsey
Nov 27, 20203 min read


Tribe Friday - ‘Sleepwalking’ (from EP ‘Waiting for a Sign’)
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...
andyworsey
Nov 12, 20202 min read


Deirdre - ‘EP’ (EP)
A high percentage of singer songwriters seem to perform now under a ‘nom de plume’, which does intrigue me. Some have obvious Nordic...
andyworsey
Sep 25, 20202 min read


Orochen - ‘Thylacine’ (EP)
We’ve written about Swedish rock 'n apocalyptic post-industrial neofolk rockers Orochen previously, and maybe their dark perspective on...
andyworsey
Sep 23, 20202 min read


Soap Detox - Soap Detox (EP)
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...
andyworsey
Sep 14, 20202 min read


Holiday Listening #1. Crewish - Unemployed Blacksmiths (Covers) EP
As the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish says, “peculiar times spawn peculiar ideas, and that`s exactly what our beloved Crew has...
andyworsey
Aug 10, 20201 min read


Miscél - ‘A Rusty Kingdom’ (inspired by The Outlaw Ocean Project)
One of the Nordic contingent who’ve already released music inspired by The Outlaw Ocean project is the young Norwegian producer Jakob...
andyworsey
Aug 4, 20202 min read


Nouvelle - ‘Melancholic Optimism’ (EP)
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...
andyworsey
Jul 23, 20202 min read


Inga Björk - Straumur (EP)
So here’s something a little different, but it seems appropriate for a quiet Sunday evening somehow. Inga Björk is a songwriter from...
andyworsey
Jul 19, 20201 min read


Ellen Krauss – New York (final single from EP)
The young Swede Ellen Krauss has turned up in these pages previously as she has successively released tracks from her new EP 'Pearl'...
andyworsey
Jul 18, 20202 min read


Moyka – Spaces (EP)
Moyka (Monika Engeseth) is an artist I missed at the Øya Festival last year but shortly afterwards reviewed a single, ‘Bones’ which is...
andyworsey
Jun 16, 20203 min read


I Am Bones - 'Lobster Vibes' (EP)
I finished last week by writing about Dog, Paper, Submarine, possibly my personal favourite album of the year to date, and I didn’t...
andyworsey
Jun 8, 20202 min read
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