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NMR Indie Playlist


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


Gudfinnur 🇮🇸 - ‘Light’ (single)
Just a short one tonight, but it’s a genuinely interesting project courtesy of Icelandic musician Guðfinnur Sveinsson, more commonly...
Andy Wors
Jun 16, 20211 min read


MALMØ 🇩🇰 – ‘The End’ (featured track from EP, ‘The Inevitable End’)
I said the other day that there were some ominous song titles around and you don’t get much more portentous than ‘The End’, which is the...
David Bentley
Jun 15, 20212 min read


Soffía Björg (Iceland) – Judgement Day (single from forthcoming album)
When I listened to Soffía Björg’s eponymous debut album a few years ago I felt straight away that as good as it was there would be no...
David Bentley
Jun 14, 20213 min read


Yehra 🇩🇰 - ‘Dirty Love’ (single)
I guarantee you’ll like this or I’ll refund half your monthly NMR subscription fee. Yehra have released just 2 singles, but they’ve...
Andy Wors
Jun 11, 20211 min read


The Lund Commission 🇳🇴 - ‘10-11’ (single)
I must admit I was drawn to the The Lund Commission at first by the name, as it sounds like the type of interesting Indie project I might...
Andy Wors
Jun 11, 20211 min read


Glue Kiss 🇩🇰 - ‘You Sting Like My Wasted Youth’ (single from album ‘Platonic’)
We featured Norwegian band Onsloow with their quite ‘easy listening’ form of indie rock, but Glue Kiss from Denmark add some raw emotion...
Andy Wors
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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