Basia Bulat. Now there’s a name to conjure with. It sounds Turkish (?) but she is actually Polish-Canadian, originally from London,...

I wrote about Norwegian band Remington Super 60 at the beginning of the year when they released a new EP, but they always seem a pretty...

Last time we wrote about Trees up North he was stuck on a ladder, metaphorically at least, trying to work out which way to climb, and in...

I suspect that Mayflower Madame are probably named after the infamous New York escort agency owner Sydney Biddle Barrows rather than the...

Finland’s Pearly Drops released their debut album ‘Call For Help’ on November 20th and this is the title track from it. In doing so,...

We haven’t had many artists or bands from Aarhus in Denmark recently and then in the space of a couple of days there are two of them....

There is no better example of why I love doing this than finding ‘new’ talent like Gurli Octavia. She’s been around for a while – she has...

The number of new releases are slowing down as we get towards the New Year, and soon I guess we need to think about wrapping up the year...

A few weeks ago we featured Sweden’s The Deer Tracks in a ‘Down Memory Lane’ article. One half of the writing duo of that band, David...

I’m not going to write much about Norwegian songwriter døssi, because her music really does speak for itself. She’s yet another musician...

At first glance this appeared to be quite a coup. The press release asked us to “join Greta Thunberg, (Swedish/American labour activist)...

The only thing I’ve ever asked in the last 6 years of NMR is that new bands kindly give themselves names that are easily ‘googleable' –...

Somehow we’ve completed 6 years of Nordic Music Review and as we enter the 7th year I can’t help but be reminded all the amazing highs of...

“Day after day, alone on the hill/the man with the foolish grin/ is keeping perfectly still”. The lyrics of the Beatles’ classic simply...

Plenty of material to work with here. FRUM (ever more artists are using upper case capitalisation for their monikers) is a project of...

Circumnavigate is a Norwegian-born, London based Alt-Pop four piece. With an EP coming up for release this is the third single from it...

Music videos don’t have to be high production affairs, and I love seeing the innovation of indie bands and artists – although most in...

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 mentioned Luminous Kid in passing on Tuesday as the Swedish songwriter is about to head out on tour in early 2021 (Covid permitting of...

A new band to me, I only know they are from Gothenburg, CHIVVY are three young ladies who used to be known as The Tape, and released an...