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NMR Indie Playlist


SkarWorX (Norway): Wisdom (first track from forthcoming debut album)
In the UK, national broadcaster the BBC, with no new programmes to show, is re-running its classic 1970s sit-com Fawlty Towers. In the...
David Bentley
Mar 19, 20213 min read
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Park & Natur (Sweden) - Göta Lejon Marching Band (track from EP)
For a moment I thought this might be the theme tune to the American sitcom I never saw until I remembered that was called Parks and...
David Bentley
Mar 18, 20212 min read
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Corduroy (Sweden) - Gråa Dagar (single)
I’ll get the negative out the way early here, because Corduroy is, in my opinion, a rather dull name for an indie band. I’m not offering...
Andy Wors
Mar 18, 20212 min read
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Kristian Grostad (Norway) - ‘Blink of an Eye’ (single)
I know we have readers across the world and that different pandemic lockdowns apply according to where you live, but over in the UK the...
Andy Wors
Mar 17, 20212 min read
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Non-Nordic Sunday: St Vincent (USA) - Pay your way in pain (track from forthcoming album)
Happy returns for St Vincent, who has been unusually quiet since her sixth studio album, 2017’s ‘Masseduction’, apart from writing and...
David Bentley
Mar 14, 20213 min read
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Non-Nordic Sunday: Joana Serrat (Spain/Catalonia) – ‘Pictures’ (Single from forthcoming album)
Four years ago I had the pleasure of going to a Joana Serrat show in Levenshulme, an upcoming but still down at heel and slightly edgy...
David Bentley
Mar 14, 20213 min read
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Phogg (Sweden) - ‘Sharkness’ (single)
It’s been a while since I wrote about Swedish band Phogg, but I still listen to their 2019 album 'Mofeto Mashine Adamkosh' fairly...
Andy Wors
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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Video of the Week: Tuvaband (Norway) - Post Isolation
Every time I see the words ‘post’ and ‘isolation’ in the same sentence I’m hungry to learn more. I’m sure I’m not the only one. In this...
David Bentley
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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Caper Clowns (Denmark) - ‘I’d Be Me’ (single)
One of the live gigs I was looking forward to seeing last year before ‘the bug’ hit, was the return of Danish band Caper Clowns to...
Andy Wors
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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Ola Village (Norway) - ‘Love To Cry’ (single)
Using the term ‘Norwegian Newcomer’ seems a little odd for someone who’s actually been on the scene for a few years and won the NRK P3...
Dan Cromb
Mar 12, 20213 min read
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Louien (Norway): Better Woman (lead single from EP)
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted The Northern Belle, on whose song Louien guested. Now it is her turn, and this is the lead single...
David Bentley
Mar 12, 20212 min read
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Amanda Tenfjord (Norway) – Kill the Lonely (track from EP ‘Miss the Way You Missed Me’)
With new releases thin on the ground this week (but they are coming) I’m doing some catching up and who better to do it with than the...
David Bentley
Mar 11, 20212 min read
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Where Did Nora Go (Denmark) - ‘Returning’ (single)
The list of artists we’ve never quite got to writing about is seemingly endless. Where Did Nora Go is a songwriter who made a huge...
Andy Wors
Mar 9, 20211 min read
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Loney Dear (Sweden) - ‘Oppenheimer’ (single from forthcoming album)
Last time we wrote about Loney Dear he’d just released his single 'Trifles', which somewhat intriguingly referred to bodies being dumped...
Andy Wors
Mar 6, 20212 min read
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Revolt (Norway) - 'Giljotin' (single)
I last wrote about young Norwegian band Revolt last year when they released their single ‘Kyoto’, and their new track ‘Giljotin’ (which...
Andy Wors
Mar 6, 20212 min read
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Pastlife (Sweden) - 'This is Her' (debut single)
No, not Westlife, this is Pastlife, a Swedish indie pop duo. I don’t know much about them except that they are ‘Kevin’ and ‘Agnes’ and...
David Bentley
Mar 5, 20212 min read
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Marianne Sveen (Norway): 'How Come' (single from forthcoming album)
‘How Come’ is the second song from Marianne Sveen’s forthcoming debut album ‘Next Of Kin’ and as with the previous one, ‘Look Away’,...
David Bentley
Mar 5, 20213 min read
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Varvara (Finland) - ‘On My Way to You’ (single)
I’ve been listening to the new album from Finnish band Black Twig today, and it’s a noisy enjoyable listen. But the new single ‘On My Way...
Andy Wors
Mar 3, 20211 min read
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Colorblue (Finland) - ‘He’s Right I’m Left’ (single)
So here’s a cheery melodic indie pop song to warm the hearts on a cold Monday night, and it’s courtesy of Finnish band Colorblue, another...
Andy Wors
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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Bonander (Sweden): Gone in the Wind (single from forthcoming album)
No PR on this one which is why I’d missed the mid-February release, and I’m guessing ‘Gone in the Wind’ is from ‘Things We Don’t Talk...
David Bentley
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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