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NMR Indie Playlist


Single of the Week: DULL 🇸🇪 - ‘Bad’
As we've mentioned a few times before, the first bit of advice we always give a new band is to make their name memorable and easily...
Andy
Dec 8, 20222 min read


Nordic Indie Playlist Update - 03/12
This is almost our final Indie Playlist of the year - with just an extra special Christmas / Festive Indie version due in about 10 days....
Andy
Dec 5, 20222 min read


Indie Playlist - Update 16/11
Finally an update to the Nordic Music Review Playlist, and it features a great selection of recent releases, including NMR favourites...
Andy
Nov 16, 20221 min read


Single of the Week: The School Book Depository 🇸🇪 - ‘Corals’
I'm a couple of weeks behind on this one, but it hardly matters given I'm almost exactly one year out of date with my Gypsy Chicken album...
Andy
Nov 14, 20222 min read


Single of the Week: Kári (Iceland) - ‘Something Better’
I haven't featured a Single of the Week for a while, and delighted to correct that with another new name to these pages, Icelandic...
Andy
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Single of the Week - Cinnamon Space Machine 🇸🇪 - ‘A Bird Lit Down’
I was of course tempted to restart this feature after our Summer break with the new Major Parkinson track ‘Saturday Night’, but there’s...
Andy
Sep 6, 20222 min read
Indie Playlist Update 05/09
Time for a long overdue update to the Indie Playlist. It includes a few tracks missed during the summer break as well as some new...
Andy
Sep 5, 20221 min read


Single of the Week: Vince Chinaski - ‘She Comes in Colours’
We seem to be averaging about 50 new single submissions a week, about 15-20 make it on to the playlist, and just 1 gets a few extra words...
Andy Wors
Feb 7, 20221 min read


Tracks of the Week 01/11/21
Evran - ‘A Perfect Day’ Norwegian writer and producer Evran will be releasing his EP ‘A Perfect Day’ in Spring 2022, but new track ‘A...
Andy Wors
Nov 3, 20212 min read


Moron Police 🇳🇴 - ‘The Stranger and the Hightide’ (single)
If truth be told I wasn’t going to start posting reviews after our annual summer break until later this week, but a dose of ‘Nordic...
Andy Wors
Aug 23, 20212 min read


Crimsonic (FI) – 'Inside Out' (single from forthcoming album)
Don’t judge the book by the cover. One glance at Crimsonic in their PR ‘artist profile’ and you’d rapidly conclude that these boys aren’t...
David Bentley
Aug 2, 20212 min read


Frank Frank Frank 🇫🇮 - ‘This Love’ (single)
Frank Frank Frank is “a three-headed dog” if you believe their self-penned PR. An unusual description by any means but “an organic,...
David Bentley
Jul 30, 20212 min read


Introducing… Cederfeldt 🇸🇪 - ‘Bats and Ivy’ (single)
There really aren’t that many releases coming through as we hit summer holiday season, but I do have a few tracks from the last couple of...
Andy Wors
Jul 30, 20211 min read


Honeyvein 🇳🇴 - ‘Dust’ (single)
Oh boy, did I have some fun with this one. I hope the artist takes this in the right spirit. I was drawn to the DIY project Honeyvein,...
David Bentley
Jul 27, 20212 min read


Flora Cash (SE) – ‘Chronically Beautiful’ (single)
It’s such a while since I reviewed Flora Cash that it is lost in the mists of time, somewhere around 2018 I think. Not that they’ve...
David Bentley
Jul 21, 20212 min read
Video of the Week –ViVii (SE): ‘Smackdown’ (track from album)
ViVii have had a great deal of airplay here this last year or so but I’m more than happy to highlight this latest video from them, which...
David Bentley
Jul 16, 20212 min read


Johannas Kabaréorkester 🇸🇪 - ‘Lindansen’ (single from self titled EP)
I featured Swedish instrumental folk outfit Johannas Kabaréorkester a few months back when they released their track 'På flykt från...
Andy Wors
Jul 13, 20211 min read


Auri (Finland/UK): 'Pearl Diving' (single from forthcoming album)
I’m getting to be habitually late with reviews but this one came to me courtesy of an interview I chanced upon online, on Sunday. The...
David Bentley
Jul 13, 20213 min read


Ragnar Ægir 🇮🇸 - ‘I’m At Home’ (single)
Is it over? Has it come home? Thankfully it’s less than 2 weeks to the greatest sporting spectacle of all, and I’m counting down the...
Andy Wors
Jul 12, 20211 min read


Non-Nordic Sunday: Capitaine Monaluise (UK): 'Mixed Up Generation' (single)
Sorry folks, I can’t impart much information on Capitaine Monaluise except that she’s British, or so it seems, although with a brother...
David Bentley
Jul 11, 20212 min read
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