Indie Playlist - Update 16/11
Finally an update to the Nordic Music Review Playlist, and it features a great selection of recent releases, including NMR favourites...
NMR Indie Playlist
Andy
- Nov 14
- 2 min
Single of the Week: The School Book Depository 🇸🇪 - ‘Corals’
I'm a couple of weeks behind on this one, but it hardly matters given I'm almost exactly one year out of date with my Gypsy Chicken album...
Andy
- Nov 1
- 1 min
Single of the Week: Kári (Iceland) - ‘Something Better’
I haven't featured a Single of the Week for a while, and delighted to correct that with another new name to these pages, Icelandic...
Andy
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Single of the Week - Cinnamon Space Machine 🇸🇪 - ‘A Bird Lit Down’
I was of course tempted to restart this feature after our Summer break with the new Major Parkinson track ‘Saturday Night’, but there’s...
Andy
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Indie Playlist Update 05/09
Time for a long overdue update to the Indie Playlist. It includes a few tracks missed during the summer break as well as some new...
Andy Wors
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Single of the Week: Vince Chinaski - ‘She Comes in Colours’
We seem to be averaging about 50 new single submissions a week, about 15-20 make it on to the playlist, and just 1 gets a few extra words...
Andy Wors
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Tracks of the Week 01/11/21
Evran - ‘A Perfect Day’ Norwegian writer and producer Evran will be releasing his EP ‘A Perfect Day’ in Spring 2022, but new track ‘A...
Andy Wors
- Aug 23, 2021
- 2 min
Moron Police 🇳🇴 - ‘The Stranger and the Hightide’ (single)
If truth be told I wasn’t going to start posting reviews after our annual summer break until later this week, but a dose of ‘Nordic...
David Bentley
- Aug 2, 2021
- 2 min
Crimsonic (FI) – 'Inside Out' (single from forthcoming album)
Don’t judge the book by the cover. One glance at Crimsonic in their PR ‘artist profile’ and you’d rapidly conclude that these boys aren’t...
David Bentley
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Frank Frank Frank 🇫🇮 - ‘This Love’ (single)
Frank Frank Frank is “a three-headed dog” if you believe their self-penned PR. An unusual description by any means but “an organic,...
Andy Wors
- Jul 30, 2021
- 1 min
Introducing… Cederfeldt 🇸🇪 - ‘Bats and Ivy’ (single)
There really aren’t that many releases coming through as we hit summer holiday season, but I do have a few tracks from the last couple of...
David Bentley
- Jul 27, 2021
- 2 min
Honeyvein 🇳🇴 - ‘Dust’ (single)
Oh boy, did I have some fun with this one. I hope the artist takes this in the right spirit. I was drawn to the DIY project Honeyvein,...
David Bentley
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Flora Cash (SE) – ‘Chronically Beautiful’ (single)
It’s such a while since I reviewed Flora Cash that it is lost in the mists of time, somewhere around 2018 I think. Not that they’ve...
David Bentley
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Video of the Week –ViVii (SE): ‘Smackdown’ (track from album)
ViVii have had a great deal of airplay here this last year or so but I’m more than happy to highlight this latest video from them, which...
Andy Wors
- Jul 13, 2021
- 1 min
Johannas Kabaréorkester 🇸🇪 - ‘Lindansen’ (single from self titled EP)
I featured Swedish instrumental folk outfit Johannas Kabaréorkester a few months back when they released their track 'På flykt från...
David Bentley
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
Auri (Finland/UK): 'Pearl Diving' (single from forthcoming album)
I’m getting to be habitually late with reviews but this one came to me courtesy of an interview I chanced upon online, on Sunday. The...
Andy Wors
- Jul 12, 2021
- 1 min
Ragnar Ægir 🇮🇸 - ‘I’m At Home’ (single)
Is it over? Has it come home? Thankfully it’s less than 2 weeks to the greatest sporting spectacle of all, and I’m counting down the...
David Bentley
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
Non-Nordic Sunday: Capitaine Monaluise (UK): 'Mixed Up Generation' (single)
Sorry folks, I can’t impart much information on Capitaine Monaluise except that she’s British, or so it seems, although with a brother...
Andy Wors
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Onsloow 🇳🇴 - ‘A Good Day To Forget’ (single)
Will Sunday be a day to forget or a day to remember? I hardly dare predict, but maybe Norwegian band Onsloow think it’ll be ‘A Good Day...
David Bentley
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Charlotte dos Santos 🇳🇴 - ‘Away from You’ (single)
I don’t know in which suburb of Oslo Portuguese is spoken but this artist certainly can. Charlotte dos Santos was raised just outside...