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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

We’ve written about Swedish rock 'n apocalyptic post-industrial neofolk rockers Orochen previously, and maybe their dark perspective on...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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