Just a short one tonight, but it’s a genuinely interesting project courtesy of Icelandic musician Guðfinnur Sveinsson, more commonly...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We featured Norwegian band Onsloow with their quite ‘easy listening’ form of indie rock, but Glue Kiss from Denmark add some raw emotion...

We’ve featured so many artists from Trondheim, so no surprise to see a new Indie band emerge from the same city. Onsloow are a 4 piece...

There are a number of ominously titled singles around at the moment. There’s one called ‘Judgement Day’ coming up soon but more about...

Many of you outside Iceland will already be aware of the ancient hymn 'Heyr himna smiður', not I suspect because you’re experts on 12th...

We haven’t featured Finnish musician Ville Laaksonen before, either as a songwriter or under his pseudonym Emilie Chardon, through which...

Sometimes when bands emerge on the scene and say that they’ll be playing the main stage at Reading / Leeds next then it sounds somewhat...

The adjective ‘derivative’ is thrown around perhaps too casually among music writers. Often it is used in a negative sense, such as...

Jazz seems to dominate the music scene in Norway. Even if it isn’t a jazz track you’re listening to there will be at least a snatch of...

It’s good to have the flying Finns Color Dolor back, it seems like an age since their last full-length album, the Teosto prize winning...

I wrote about Svavar Knútur recently when I came across an old track of his called ‘Tiger and Bear’, knowing that there was new music on...

Yes I’m still going on about the Eurovision Song Contest, but in fairness I did find it fairly inspirational as I thought the quality and...

So I’ve got this Nordicvision ‘smackdown’ (to keep David’s theme going from yesterday) thing going on between Sweden and Finland for my...

Sometimes I get almost overwhelmed by how lucky I am to be editing / writing for NMR. Two releases sent to me today by two of my...

I just read Andy’s in-depth analysis of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and his tips and now I’m off to Betfred to take a punt on...

“It’s a game of two halves, Gary”. How many times have we heard that nonsense on Match of the Day? And I was surprised to find this new...