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NMR Indie Playlist


Onsloow 🇳🇴 - ‘A Good Day To Forget’ (single)
Will Sunday be a day to forget or a day to remember? I hardly dare predict, but maybe Norwegian band Onsloow think it’ll be ‘A Good Day...
Andy Wors
Jul 9, 20211 min read


Charlotte dos Santos 🇳🇴 - ‘Away from You’ (single)
I don’t know in which suburb of Oslo Portuguese is spoken but this artist certainly can. Charlotte dos Santos was raised just outside...
David Bentley
Jul 9, 20212 min read


Bad Sauna 🇫🇮 - ‘Kaikki Kotona’ (single)
It’s not just football that’s apparently coming home (sorry), because according to Bad Sauna, ‘Everything’s Home’. The Finnish indie band...
Andy Wors
Jul 8, 20211 min read


Emi Li 🇸🇪 - ‘Just Forget About It’ (single)
Identified as a ‘potential international hit’ singer with a distinctly pop song, Emi Li’s first song in English (all the previous ones...
David Bentley
Jul 8, 20212 min read


Nü Fiona 🇸🇪 - ‘For The Ones I Love’ (single)
So here’s a lovely track from Swedish indie folk band Nü Fiona, undeniably a bit sad, but I guess most of the stuff we write about is. We...
Andy Wors
Jul 6, 20211 min read


Ola Village (NO) – 'Anger Problems' (track from forthcoming debut EP)
Ola Village (Jon Olav) has an anger management problem. Or perhaps he doesn’t. In this, the third song from an EP which will be released...
David Bentley
Jul 6, 20212 min read


Video of the week – Rural Tapes (NO): ‘Reddal’ (track from debut album)
The last time Rural Tapes (Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen) was here the track we reviewed, also called Rural Tapes, was the title track to this...
David Bentley
Jul 5, 20212 min read


Tuvaband 🇳🇴- ‘Irreversible’ (remixed single from album) ft. Lee Scratch Perry
Here’s an interesting one, Norway’s Tuvaband collaborates with Jamaican Lee Scratch Perry to remix a track, ‘Irreversible’, from her...
David Bentley
Jul 5, 20212 min read


Klaptrae 🇩🇰 - ‘You Say I’m Changing’ (single)
I’m tempted to feature purely Danish artists over the next couple of days to celebrate the achievement of their footballers reaching the...
Andy Wors
Jul 5, 20211 min read


Tomode (SE) – 'Synergy' (title track from EP)
Tomode released their debut EP ‘Synergy’ on June 18th via French indie label Riptide Records and this is the title track from it. Tomode,...
David Bentley
Jul 1, 20211 min read


Ásta 🇮🇸 - ‘Melabúðin’ (single)
Do you want to hear a song about pickles, written in Icelandic? Of course you do, I’m not sure why I even felt the need to ask. It comes...
Andy Wors
Jun 29, 20212 min read


SkarWorX (NO) – ‘Mutual Madness’ (track from forthcoming debut album)
I hesitated to run the rule over this, the third track from the debut SkarWorX album which is scheduled to drop in August, because to...
David Bentley
Jun 28, 20212 min read


Non-Nordic Sunday - Paula Cole (USA): ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ (track from recent LP)
This one is a little late; it was released in May as the only track on Paula Cole’s latest album, ‘American Quilt’ which isn’t a cover...
David Bentley
Jun 27, 20213 min read


Von August (Norway) – 'Skjedde bare skjedde' (single)
You know those moments in ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ when po-faced anchor Simon Cowell suddenly glances up appreciatively at the singing dog...
David Bentley
Jun 25, 20212 min read


Eberson 🇳🇴 – ‘Strange Highway’ (single from forthcoming album)
There is in football the concept of the ‘utility’ player, the sort who can fill in as a forward or midfielder, playing on either wing or...
David Bentley
Jun 25, 20213 min read


Trentemøller 🇩🇰 - Golden Sun (single)
It’s quite some time now since I last looked at what Copenhagen-based indie/electronic music composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist...
David Bentley
Jun 23, 20212 min read


Killer Cashew 🇸🇪 - ‘Shit Wine’ (single)
Imagine if the Beatles were stuck quarantined in Scunthorpe for a week due to the outbreak of a mysterious virus and had nothing better...
Andy Wors
Jun 22, 20211 min read


Xinombra 🇸🇪- ‘Tack Himmel’ (single)
I saw this band finish off the first evening of a festival in Sweden a few years ago and they almost finished off the venue as well. I’ll...
David Bentley
Jun 21, 20212 min read


Kate Havnevik (Norway) – 'Into Dark' (single from forthcoming album)
Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian experimental artist who releases her new single ‘Into Dark’ on June 18th, prior to its inclusion on a...
David Bentley
Jun 18, 20211 min read


Flight Mode 🇳🇴 - ‘Sixteen’ (single)
If truth be told, Flight Mode is one of the duller names I’ve come across for an indie project in the last few years, and slightly...
Andy Wors
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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