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Coldwave 🇦🇺 - 'The Ants / Italia 06' (single) and UK Tour!
Just a very quick mention of some great live dates hitting over the next week, thanks to Australian band Coldwave , and a recommendation...
andyworsey
Feb 27, 20251 min read


Moonwards 🇫🇮 - 'Blue Light' (single)
I included Finnish alternative rock band Moonwards on our Nordic Indie Playlist last year when they released their self-titled debut EP,...
andyworsey
Feb 27, 20251 min read


Kallsup 🇸🇪 - Golfströmmen (single)
So here's some intense Swedish shoegaze to start your weekend, courtesy of young 6 piece Kallsup , who to be honest I thought I'd written...
andyworsey
Feb 22, 20251 min read


Faraways SWE 🇸🇪 - 'Faraway Space (E.L.E.)' (single)
After the majesty of Major Parkinson, who continue to take rock in completely new directions, I'll bring things back down to earth with...
andyworsey
Jan 29, 20251 min read


Single of the Week: Major Parkinson (Norway) - 'Algorithm is a Dancer'
There’s a stack of new releases to work through, but things simply can’t get much better than a Major Parkinson single so early in the...
andyworsey
Jan 29, 20252 min read


Le Days (Sweden) - 'Rage' (single)
I feel 2025 is about to really kick in with a stream of Nordic Albums and Singles starting to arrive, so I'll close off 2024 releases...
andyworsey
Jan 23, 20251 min read


Headwired (UK) - 'Carousel'
As always we'll try and mix up our Nordic features with some artists from local music scene's here in the UK and I came across this track...
andyworsey
Jan 22, 20251 min read


Arny Margret (Iceland) - ‘Happy New Year’ (single)
As always this is a curious and interesting track from Icelandic indie folk artist Arny Margret, who has this ability to say so much in...
andyworsey
Jan 8, 20251 min read


Club 8 🇸🇪 - ‘Nervous at Heart’ (single from ‘A Year with Club 8’)
I was looking at Club 8 ’s release history a couple of weeks back as I was trying to find their Christmas singles to include in our...
andyworsey
Dec 17, 20241 min read


Marathon 🇳🇱 - ‘Out of Depth’ (single)
I wrote about Icelandic outfit Hvítá and their trip to Blackpool in their appropriately named track ' Black Days ' a couple of weeks...
andyworsey
Dec 12, 20241 min read


Indigo Dream 🇫🇮 🇭🇰 🏴 - ‘A Bittersweet Goodbye’
Just a few days before the famous Nordic Music Review Christmas Indie Playlist makes its annual appearance, but as always I have dozens...
andyworsey
Dec 11, 20241 min read


Misty Coast 🇳🇴 - ‘Swimming’ (single)
I know we’ve pretty much finished 2024, but someone asked me last week for my 2023 Albums of the Year, and ‘ Nevereverending ’ by...
andyworsey
Nov 24, 20242 min read


Hvítá 🇮🇸 - ‘Black Days’ (single)
I featured the new Girl Scout EP yesterday, and I was reminded that after I saw them live I had an interesting conversation with their...
andyworsey
Nov 22, 20241 min read


Danefae 🇩🇰 - ‘Fuglekongen’ (single)
As a student I was in a band called Danse Macabre, which I thought was a really clever name at the time until a century later the...
andyworsey
Nov 19, 20241 min read


NEØV 🇫🇮 - ‘Friedrichshein’ (single from Album ‘Soft Atlas’)
We’ve been writing about Finnish indie band NEØV since about 2014 I think, which I guess is a reminder that we’ve somehow got to 10 years...
andyworsey
Nov 11, 20241 min read


Danefae 🇩🇰 - ‘Blind’ (single)
It was lovely to see a packed venue in Manchester last week for Kalandra , a band that I’ve written about on these pages since seeing...
andyworsey
Sep 27, 20241 min read


Kalandra 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 - UK and European Tour (plus video to ‘I Am’)
We’ve featured Kalandra frequently on this site over the last 10 years, and their incredible debut album ‘ The Line ’ was pretty much...
andyworsey
Sep 16, 20241 min read


I Was A King 🇳🇴 - ‘Favourite Colours’
We started back with Bellefolie yesterday, and they’d fit pretty well on the same bill as fellow Norwegians I Was A King, although of...
andyworsey
Sep 12, 20241 min read


Bellefolie 🇳🇴 ‘In the Clouds’ (single)
It's been a while, but I guess I should get on with writing about some new music before the aliens land and start eating our puppies and...
andyworsey
Sep 11, 20242 min read


Armadillo King 🇸🇪- ‘We All Die Young’ (single)
I started to write about recent Armadillo King release ‘It’s soon summertime’ earlier this week, an upbeat buoyant track celebrating the...
andyworsey
May 29, 20242 min read
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