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NMR Indie Playlist


Hey Elbow – Layers (track from recently released album)
Swedish dream-pop outfit Hey Elbow have shared a track, ‘Layers’, taken from their full-length album ‘We Three’ which is available now...
David Bentley
Sep 25, 20202 min read
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Gaeya – Contact (Debut single)
Coincidentally, I was writing about a film called Contact last night, in a piece on Ólafur Arnalds’ new single and another recent review...
David Bentley
Sep 24, 20203 min read
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Ólafur Arnalds – 'We Contain Multitudes' (single from new album, 'Some kind of peace', November 6th)
Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds has released two tracks now from his forthcoming album, of which this is the most recent. The album will feature...
David Bentley
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Twenty Committee – In a Rush (single)
This one is from the ‘Scandinavian collective’ Twenty Committee. I’m not really sure what one of those is but I do know the main man is...
David Bentley
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Moron Police - Cult of Tuna (bonus unreleased track)
The artists we’ve featured this week have covered some pretty serious subjects, from suicidal trichotomies to analysing Nietzsche...
Andy Wors
Sep 19, 20202 min read
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Myrkvi – Gamechanger (Last single before 'Reflections' album release in October)
We’ve featured Myrkvi twice before, but he’s here again partly because this fourth release from his debut album is probably the pick of...
David Bentley
Sep 18, 20202 min read
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Piotr Nowotnik (ft Violina Juliusdotter) - Duvan I Skogan (single)
We’ve covered, even if I say so myself, an excellent diverse set of Indie bands in the last week, from the gothgaze of Spunsugar to the...
Andy Wors
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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Pom Poko - ‘My Candidacy’ (single)
We’ve featured Pom Poko a fair few times already, and we’ll try not to push them too much in advance of their new album, due in November,...
Andy Wors
Sep 17, 20202 min read
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Stöj Snak - ‘Fire’ (single from forthcoming new album)
Stöj Snak describe themselves as a ‘Screamer Songwriter’ band on their Bandcamp page, and to be honest I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to...
Andy Wors
Sep 16, 20202 min read
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Baby in Vain - ‘Wherever I Go’ (single)
It’s been a while since we had chance to write about Danish trio Baby in Vain but we welcome them back with their first new release since...
Andy Wors
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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The Holy – The Rocket Song (single)
I’ll say straight off that I don’t yet know quite what to make of this one. Finland’s The Holy have been visitors to these pages in the...
David Bentley
Sep 14, 20202 min read
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The Wannadies - ‘Can't Kill The Musikk’ (single)
It’s Friday which means a new collection of singles and albums have been released, so we’ll start working our way through with just a few...
Andy Wors
Sep 11, 20201 min read
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Acres Wild – Mirrorball Stars (single from forthcoming album)
I’ve listened to ’Mirrowball Stars’ by Acres Wild a couple of times because, as usual, it reminds me of another band, a British one, or...
David Bentley
Sep 10, 20202 min read
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Dagny - It’s Only a Heartbreak (single from forthcoming album)
Anyone who has followed my ramblings about Dagny over recent years will know that while I have respect for her I’ve struggled to find...
David Bentley
Sep 9, 20202 min read
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Introducing... Great Park Avenue with single ‘‘Blue World’ (single)
Great Park Avenue might sound like a 'green' street on the Milton Keynes edition of Monopoly, but they’re actually the latest in a long...
Andy Wors
Sep 9, 20201 min read
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TOM and His Computer – Puzzle (ft. Roxy Jules) (single from forthcoming debut album)
Thomas Bertelsen aka TOM and His Computer comes to NMR courtesy of the German label HFN Music, whose other Danish artists Jacob Bellens,...
David Bentley
Sep 8, 20202 min read
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Keiser - ‘Scourge of the Wicked’ (single)
We don’t normally cover much Nordic black metal or similar styles, and there’s a pretty good reason too, there’s some excellent...
Andy Wors
Sep 5, 20202 min read
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Groundstroem - Ain't Got a Prayer (single)
Filip Groundstroem is a young Swede, in his early 20s by the look of it, who is under the radar here and “on the verge of a...
David Bentley
Sep 4, 20202 min read
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Marble Mammoth – Have the Sun Lick Your Mind (single)
Hand on heart, it’s very rare that the quality of a Press Release determines whether or not I review a song or album but in this case...
David Bentley
Sep 3, 20202 min read
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Ida Wenøe - ‘One Step’ (single)
We’ve featured a few artists already who’ve released tracks written and produced in the midst of lockdown, and I have a feeling that the...
Andy Wors
Sep 3, 20202 min read
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