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NMR Indie Playlist
Andy
2 hours ago1 min read
Headwired (UK) - 'Carousel'
As always we'll try and mix up our Nordic features with some artists from local music scene's here in the UK and I came across this track...
Andy
Jan 81 min read
Arny Margret (Iceland) - ‘Happy New Year’ (single)
As always this is a curious and interesting track from Icelandic indie folk artist Arny Margret, who has this ability to say so much in...
Andy
Dec 17, 20241 min read
Club 8 🇸🇪 - ‘Nervous at Heart’ (single from ‘A Year with Club 8’)
I was looking at Club 8 ’s release history a couple of weeks back as I was trying to find their Christmas singles to include in our...
Andy
Dec 12, 20241 min read
Marathon 🇳🇱 - ‘Out of Depth’ (single)
I wrote about Icelandic outfit Hvítá and their trip to Blackpool in their appropriately named track ' Black Days ' a couple of weeks...
Andy
Dec 11, 20241 min read
Indigo Dream 🇫🇮 🇭🇰 🏴 - ‘A Bittersweet Goodbye’
Just a few days before the famous Nordic Music Review Christmas Indie Playlist makes its annual appearance, but as always I have dozens...
Andy
Nov 24, 20242 min read
Misty Coast 🇳🇴 - ‘Swimming’ (single)
I know we’ve pretty much finished 2024, but someone asked me last week for my 2023 Albums of the Year, and ‘ Nevereverending ’ by...
Andy
Nov 22, 20241 min read
Hvítá 🇮🇸 - ‘Black Days’ (single)
I featured the new Girl Scout EP yesterday, and I was reminded that after I saw them live I had an interesting conversation with their...
Andy
Nov 19, 20241 min read
Danefae 🇩🇰 - ‘Fuglekongen’ (single)
As a student I was in a band called Danse Macabre, which I thought was a really clever name at the time until a century later the...
Andy
Nov 11, 20241 min read
NEØV 🇫🇮 - ‘Friedrichshein’ (single from Album ‘Soft Atlas’)
We’ve been writing about Finnish indie band NEØV since about 2014 I think, which I guess is a reminder that we’ve somehow got to 10 years...
Andy
Sep 27, 20241 min read
Danefae 🇩🇰 - ‘Blind’ (single)
It was lovely to see a packed venue in Manchester last week for Kalandra , a band that I’ve written about on these pages since seeing...
Andy
Sep 16, 20241 min read
Kalandra 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 - UK and European Tour (plus video to ‘I Am’)
We’ve featured Kalandra frequently on this site over the last 10 years, and their incredible debut album ‘ The Line ’ was pretty much...
Ana
Sep 12, 20241 min read
I Was A King 🇳🇴 - ‘Favourite Colours’
We started back with Bellefolie yesterday, and they’d fit pretty well on the same bill as fellow Norwegians I Was A King, although of...
Andy
Sep 11, 20242 min read
Bellefolie 🇳🇴 ‘In the Clouds’ (single)
It's been a while, but I guess I should get on with writing about some new music before the aliens land and start eating our puppies and...
Andy
May 29, 20242 min read
Armadillo King 🇸🇪- ‘We All Die Young’ (single)
I started to write about recent Armadillo King release ‘It’s soon summertime’ earlier this week, an upbeat buoyant track celebrating the...
Andy
May 24, 20241 min read
Swash 🇩🇰 - ‘The Hole’ (from EP 'Bees')
My favourite ‘new’ band on the newly updated Nordic Music Review Indie Playlist is Danish outfit Swash, courtesy of their newish track...
Andy
May 10, 20241 min read
Martin Månsson Sjöstrand 🇸🇪 - 'We Are Mere Inhabitants of Someone's Mind' (single)
It's been a busy week for Swedish musician Martin Månsson Sjöstrand. He's spent the last few days, by all accounts, hanging around the...
Andy
May 9, 20242 min read
Fan Girl 🇦🇺 - ‘the last one’ (single)
Where shall I start? A blistering single from an Australian band who offer an interesting mix of ‘colour and chaos’? Sounds good to me....
Andy
Apr 10, 20241 min read
Oliver Hohlbrugger 🇳🇴 – Velveteen (ft Pål Jackman (single)
I've been unavoidably absent for most of March, so I'm just going to throw some of my favourite tracks out there from the last few weeks...
Andy
Mar 2, 20242 min read
Wide Arches 🇨🇦 - 'Pictures in the Sand' (from album ‘Farewell to the Lovely Things’)
To be honest I was quite overwhelmed looking at the range of releases around the world this week, and normally I'd have probably been...
Andy
Feb 21, 20242 min read
Kindsight 🇩🇰 - ‘Tomorrow’ (single)
Kindsight are another band we've featured regularly since their debut in 2020 and I found myself reading up earlier what I said about...
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