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NMR Indie Playlist


Father Earth - ‘Don’t Tempt the Wicked’ (single)
I don’t have much love for any social media platforms now, but Instagram always feels the most positive, and seems to have far less...
Andy Wors
Oct 27, 20201 min read


Hellhounds - Velour (EP)
Finnish band Hellhounds are so very new that I know absolutely nothing about them, but recently released tracks ‘Wild Horses’ and...
Andy Wors
Oct 26, 20202 min read


Video of the Week: RULES – Constantia
This particular Video of the Week is selected as much for its bizarreness as its aesthetic qualities. As NMR readers may know from a...
David Bentley
Oct 26, 20202 min read


Sarah Klang – Canyon (single from forthcoming album)
“The saddest girl in Sweden,” as Gothenburg alt-pop artist Sarah Klang is jocularly known, is back with a new single, ‘Canyon’, released...
David Bentley
Oct 23, 20203 min read


Sol Heilo – All the Lost People (Single)
It was only a few weeks ago that we featured all-girl band Katzenjammer in a ‘Down Memory Lane’ story and I was speculating then about...
David Bentley
Oct 23, 20202 min read


Emi Wes – All Grown Up (single)
Amy Winehouse lives. That has to be your first reaction to Emi Wes and her new single, All Grown Up”. She’s a Danish songwriter who has...
David Bentley
Oct 22, 20201 min read


Silla Dream - ‘Cat Eyes’ (single)
You can’t beat a catchy indie pop track with a belting chorus, and Danish songwriter Silla Dream manages exactly that in his new track...
Andy Wors
Oct 20, 20201 min read


Kindsight - ‘Terminal Haze’ (single)
We’ve featured quite a few Swedish bands on the excellent Rama Lama label, including most recently Loaver, but we’ve never featured any...
Andy Wors
Oct 19, 20201 min read


Twenty Committee – Something New (single from forthcoming album)
Following the release of their single ‘In A Rush’ ft. Chloe Rodgers last month (which we reviewed), the mysterious Scandinavian...
David Bentley
Oct 19, 20202 min read


Introducing... 'Bony Man' with track 'Unforgiven'
I’m a little curious about Icelandic artist Bony Man, simply because we seem to have so little information on where he’s come from, or...
Andy Wors
Oct 18, 20202 min read


Introducing... Bad Sauna with track 'Haluun pois'
We often seem to get some lovely surprises from the Finnish underground music scene, but such a good new single from Helsinki band Bad...
Andy Wors
Oct 18, 20202 min read


Of Monsters and Men – Visitor (single) and ‘Live from Reykjavik’ streamed event
I’m more than a bit behind with this one – it was released in the second week of September – but it somehow managed to pass me by, which...
David Bentley
Oct 17, 20203 min read


Tomode – Autostrada (single)
A fairly quick return for the up and coming Swedish Electronic/Disco band, following the super funky and Chic-like debut, ‘Destiny No....
David Bentley
Oct 16, 20202 min read


Vivii – Rendezvous (single from forthcoming album)
Vivii’s last single, ‘Summer of 99’, also from their forthcoming album (spring 2021) was a good one but somewhat marred by the peculiar...
David Bentley
Oct 14, 20202 min read


Annie – Corridors of Time (track from new album, Dark Hearts)
The last time Norway’s Annie released an album Ke$ha had the best-selling single of the year with ‘Tik Tok’. If Ke$ha released it now...
David Bentley
Oct 12, 20202 min read


Non-Nordic Sunday: Dirty Freud – Blood Bayou (single from forthcoming EP)
I’ve encountered Dee (Dirty) Freud, before, in the electronic garage/dub duo and Massive Attack-inspired Indus Traps with Lou Barnell. A...
David Bentley
Oct 11, 20202 min read


Loaver - ‘Apart’ (single from forthcoming album ‘Fern’)
We frequently cover bands / artists spin off and solo projects, and I love to see the complex interconnecting relationships between...
Andy Wors
Oct 10, 20202 min read


Rebecka Reinhard - Stamford Hill (track and video from recent EP 'Whale')
Rebecka Reinhard released a new six-track EP, ‘Whale’ at the end of August, and this is the official video for one of the singles from...
David Bentley
Oct 9, 20202 min read


Stillehavet - ‘Cosmos’ (single)
I had very little information to go on when I first heard the new track by Norwegian band Stillehavet, but there was something curious...
Andy Wors
Oct 9, 20202 min read


Linebug - ‘Like Wild Horses’ (video)
Last time we featured Linebug, the collaboration between Danish songwriter Line Bogh and the artist Christian Gundtoft, they were just...
Andy Wors
Oct 8, 20202 min read
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