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NMR Indie Playlist


Tidal Wave – End of the Line (single)
Tidal Wave is a heavy rock quartet founded in the Baltic Sea city of Sundsvall, in central Sweden. They are inspired by traditional heavy...
David Bentley
Nov 13, 20202 min read


Von August - Hvis Du Vil (If you want) (Single)
Here’s a novelty. A song released internationally by a Norwegian band and it’s in Norwegian rather than English. Von August, an...
David Bentley
Nov 13, 20202 min read


Tribe Friday - ‘Sleepwalking’ (from EP ‘Waiting for a Sign’)
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...
Andy Wors
Nov 12, 20202 min read


Nayad - ‘Holy Lakes (Dusk)’ (single)
We seem to have missed out on Swedish duo Nayad when they released their debut tracks earlier this year, but we’ll make amends with new...
Andy Wors
Nov 11, 20202 min read


Lena Anderssen – Aimee (single from forthcoming album)
We’ve had a few Faroese artists lately and here’s another one although she is actually Faroese-Canadian. The Faroe Islands fascinates me;...
David Bentley
Nov 10, 20202 min read


Orphan Songs - ‘The Full Moon Rise’ (single)
We come across some pretty multi-talented artists here at Nordic Music Review, but not sure we’ve come across anyone with such a diverse...
Andy Wors
Nov 10, 20202 min read


Lydmor – The Gadget Song (single)
I guess this is the last single before Lydmor’s fourth album is released but I’m not sure this will be on it. She’s one of the most...
David Bentley
Nov 9, 20202 min read


Jonsson United: Mot världens ände (Towards the end of the World) (single)
It must seem like that’s where we are going, sometimes. I didn’t know much about this band other than they are from Alnö, in the...
David Bentley
Nov 7, 20202 min read


Video of the week – premiere: Marble Mammoth – Higher than the Sun (single)
It’s a week of contrasts for sure. We’ve had a Faroese boy band, a cultured Icelandic duo, and now some Swedish psych rock. This is a...
David Bentley
Nov 7, 20202 min read


The School Book Depository - ‘You and Me’ (single)
I don’t use Facebook that much, but a lovely surprise was waiting for me when I logged in earlier, the surprise announcement of a new...
Andy Wors
Nov 6, 20201 min read


Vola Tila - Forget That I Love You (single from forthcoming debut album)
When you review many artists you sometimes forget, embarrassingly, that you’ve covered them before. Such was the case with Vola Tila and...
David Bentley
Nov 6, 20202 min read


Katharina Nuttall - Lethe (single)
6th November sees the release of the first single for some time from Norwegian/Swedish artist Katharina Nuttall, an artist, music...
David Bentley
Nov 6, 20202 min read


Sykur – Live from Reykjavik
It came as a sad reminder that this time last year I was preparing to leave for the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik. This year it...
David Bentley
Nov 6, 20202 min read


llawgne - ‘Reverie Neverending’ (single)
Y’all staying awake there? It’s been a long 24 hours, and I know we have a lot of readers from the U.S., so all I can say is that we feel...
Andy Wors
Nov 4, 20202 min read


Gaeya – Truth (single)
Gaeya sufficiently impressed with her previous single, ‘Contact’ to justify an early return to these pages. I hope Gaeya never becomes a...
David Bentley
Nov 3, 20202 min read


Boncyan – It’s on me (single)
Wot? A boy band in Nordic Music Review? Why not, they have the same right as anyone else. It’s on us, you might say. Boncyan (say ‘bon –...
David Bentley
Nov 2, 20202 min read


Melpo Mene - “Get A Rocket” (single)
When the hugely influential Cardiacs front man and musician Tim Smith sadly passed away recently, many of us were fascinated at the news...
Andy Wors
Oct 31, 20202 min read


KO:MI – I’ll find my own way (single from forthcoming album)
Faced with a non-stop diet of similarly sounding RnB tonight I was beginning to despair until I came across this new track from KO:MI,...
David Bentley
Oct 31, 20202 min read


Miynt - ‘Give me palm trees and inner peace’ (single)
I’m not quite sure how we haven’t featured Swedish artist Miynt previously, but we’ll correct that omission now given she’s released a...
Andy Wors
Oct 30, 20201 min read


Oscar – Soul Experience: Oh Oh (track from debut album, out now)
Sweden’s Oscar – Soul Experience is a band put together by young Oscar Ögren specifically for the purpose of playing live and that has...
David Bentley
Oct 30, 20202 min read
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