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The Spring This Autumn - 'Soak' (from EP 'What Remains')

Andy Wors

Jan 16, 2018
2 min

The Spring This Autumn - 'Soak' (from EP 'What Remains')

One of our many New Years resolutions is to try and feature more bands with a post rock influence, I hugely enjoyed getting to know the TELLER' album at the end of last year, and look forward to discovering far more Nordic bands in this style. 'The Spring This Autumn' are also from Sweden, and whilst it is true to say that their EP from 2017 'What Remains' is undoubtedly more in a post metal style that I don't quite engage with as much, their instrumental track 'Soak' is pret

Andy Wors

Aug 13, 2015
1 min

Fufanu - 'Adjust to the Light' EP

The 2nd EP we’ve written about today is from one of our favourite new bands from the last year Fufanu. The Icelandic outfit, formally electronic based and called Captain Fufanu, have followed up their debut 'Circus Life' (we wrote about that at the end of last year) with a 4 track EP called 'Adjust to the Light' which is dark, atmospheric and pretty fantastic too - although it certainly has a different edge to it than their debut single. The band have gained a fair reputatio

Andy Wors

Aug 13, 2015
1 min

Axel Flóvent– Forest Fires EP

We’re featuring a couple of Eps from Iceland today which actually came out a couple of months back, and we’ve had them happily sitting on our playlists for a while as we familarised ourselves with them. The first is a new artist to Nordic Music Review, Axel Flóvent, who’s EP ‘Forest Fires’ is quite possibly the softest and most delicate release we’ve come across this year. An Indie Folk musician hailing from the Northern Icelandic fishing village of Húsavík, Axels music is ca

Andy Wors

Jul 9, 2015
2 min

Select Captain - 'Pure Neon' EP

We have a list of Nordic Artists and Bands that we want to bring to your attention at Nordic Music Review, and its getting longer. Sadly we cant quite give the coverage to everyone we want, and we end up frequently reminding ourselves of our ever growing backlog. But in many ways it’s a nice problem to have, and we will just keep trying to write as much as we can about music we think is genuinely good, and allow you to make up your own mind. ‘Select Captain’ have been towards

Andy Wors

Jul 2, 2015
1 min

Novotonik - 'Come What May' EP

After featuring the brilliant debut from ‘The Stillwalkers’, we thought we’d stay in Finland to give a quick mention to a brand new band who have just released their debut EP. ‘Novotonik’ are from Tampere, Finland, and were formed in spring 2012, but have only actively been playing gigs in the last 6 months or so. Their debut EP "Come What May" was released on June 15th, and its pretty good too. It has 4 bright, original sounding tracks, opening with ‘ETA Yesterday’, a sound

Andy Wors

Jun 5, 2015
1 min

Communions - 'Communions' EP

We haven’t featured Danish band 'Communions' before at Nordic Music Review. They came to peoples attention last year with some pretty impressive debut material, and their 'Communions' EP was released on Monday, and it contains the excellent pre-EP single 'Out of My World'. With some high profile live performances, they now have a fairly big following and the attention of a fair number of music publications and websites too. For the unitiated, they’re all Danish, but half rai

Andy Wors

Jun 5, 2015
2 min

Magic Potion - 'Melt' EP

We've covered Magic Potion before at Nordic Music Review in a 'New Band' feature, so it’s great to be able to report on their debut EP release, which was Monday of this week. The EP is called 'Melt', and it’s exactly what I was expecting from the Swedish outfit, who play offbeat indie pop with a warped and wobbly guitar sound. It’s slightly spaced out and psychedelic, but never in an intense way, and always fun to listen to. Anyway we have 4 tracks for our listening pleasure

Andy Wors

May 27, 2015
1 min

Party at the Pharmacy - EP

We featured Norwegian band Party at the Pharmacy a while back because we loved their debut single ‘Violet Coloured Sunset’, so its finally good to be able to catch up with their self titled debut EP released last month. I guess when a band debuts with such an interesting likeable song, the danger is that we compare everything they subsequently release against that. And the style of the opening song from this EP is slightly different to what we were expecting, its called ‘Did

Andy Wors

May 23, 2015
2 min

Siv Jakobsen - 'The Lingering' EP

It occurred to me that we’ve been writing Nordic Music Review stuff for exactly 6 months today, so its particularly good to be returning to Siv Jakobsen, as it was on our ‘launch night’ in November that I sat listening to Siv on Soundcloud for the first time. I immediately felt drawn to the quiet personal intimacy of her music, and we’ve followed her progress ever since. Her EP ‘The Lingering’ is released on Monday 25th, and it’s a lovely substantial 7 tracks to get immersed

Andy Wors

May 7, 2015
2 min

AURORA - 'Running with the Wolves' EP

In comparison to todays other ‘reviewee’ Mani Orrason, our next artist Aurora Aksnes is getting a bit old…. ok ok, so shes only 18, but that’s a whole year older than young Mani – and they certainly have a lot in common in terms of their exceptional maturity of song composition and vocal qualities. I listened to Auroras new EP ‘Running with the Wolves’ on Tuesday morning, the day after its release and I was instantly struck by her outstanding voice, and 4 individual songs wit

Andy Wors

May 1, 2015
2 min

Traffic Island - 'Third EP'

I cant deny that it hasn’t been easy getting back into writing reviews after a long holiday, too much lazing around, and a few too many glasses of wine / beer each night hasn’t helped either. But an email which arrived just a couple of days ago has reminded me what a privilege it is to be involved in Nordic Music Review, as being sent an unexpected and excellent EP is a great reminder of why we set the website up in the first place. ‘Traffic Island’ from Turku in Finland may

Andy Wors

Feb 13, 2015
2 min

The Attic Sleepers - 'Lanquin'

Danish based duo The Attic Sleepers are still a pretty new band, and they have after all just released a Debut EP, ‘Lanquin’, but they’ve played some fairly big gigs, had good radio airplay and coverage online. Because of this we haven’t just included them in our ‘New Bands / Artists’ feature, we’ve have taken a listen to the EP itself. Its an impressive debut. Its named after the Guatamalan town where the project came to life – the Attic Sleepers duo Mathias Barfod and Mati

Andy Wors

Feb 6, 2015
2 min

Mari Hajem - 'Confusion' EP

We’re getting sent a nice selection of new music to listen to now, and I hope its something we never tire of. Most of it is pretty darn good too, and listening to Mari Hajems new EP ‘Confusion’ reminds me of something fairly simple, that an outstanding voice will always have effect of instantly enthralling new listeners, and completely captivating their attention. Norwegian singer Mari Hajem, based now in Liverpool, has one of those voices, and her EP ‘Confusion’ demonstrat

Andy Wors

Jan 13, 2015
2 min

Ghost of Belle Starr - 'Ghost of Belle Starr' EP

Whilst the Nordic Music Review ‘collective’ of reviewers, advisors and hangers on all have a huge appreciation, obviously, of Nordic Music, its rare that we all agree on the merits of a new band. That is until Danish band ‘Ghost of Belle Starr’ appeared with their new EP, which was released just yesterday. We gave the ‘Ghost of Belle Starr’ a short write up not so long back as one of our ‘New Bands of the Day’, as we liked their single ‘Pink Guillotine’ and this is the track

Andy Wors

Dec 19, 2014
1 min

Lac Belot 'Elizabeth' EP

The strength of the EP ‘Elizabeth’ is actually fairly straightforward. Firstly Jarno Takkumäki has an outstanding voice, apparently effortless, timeless and really distinct too. And the title track ‘Elizabeth’ is beautifully written, with a simple guitar and carefree jaunty vocals to start, and a lovely tune that develops with strings before an apparently 60s influenced conclusion. The other 2 tracks on the EP, ‘II’ and ‘Flashy Gold’ almost reach the same heights of ‘Elizabet

Andy Wors

Dec 13, 2014
1 min

She Talks 'Exile' EP

December is a quiet month for album releases, so attention has been drawn to 2 good EP releases, the first of which comes from Copenhagen based She Talks with their offering ‘Exile’, (available on itunes). The band have previously released 2 albums, ‘She Talks’ in 2011 and ‘Heroine’ in 2013, and with compelling Folk Pop melodies and an attractive Indie guitar sound to back it up, ‘Exile’ should have a fairly widespread appeal. Opening track ‘The Night is Young’ opens with a m

Andy Wors

Dec 12, 2014
1 min

Love Sport 'GOL!!' EP

Our second EP of the week during this quiet December month comes from Finland. Formed of musicians from some well known Helsinki Indie bands such as Black Twig and Big Wave Riders, Love Sport have released their debut EP GOL!! on Solitti Music today (12th December). ‘Well..Shit’ opens as if we’ve walked in half way through a conversation, and straight away we know we’re listening to something slightly different from the norm. With a gritty driving guitar sound, individual

The Janitors 'Evil Doings of an Evil Mind' EP

Andy Wors

Nov 18, 2014
1 min

The Janitors 'Evil Doings of an Evil Mind' EP

Any band that describes themselves as ‘Evil Shoegaze Boogie-Woogie’ is immediately worthy of our attention, and Swedish band The Janitors are without question the greatest Evil Shoegaze Boogie-Woogie band we’ve ever had the fortune to listen to. Their new EP ‘Evil Doings of an Evil Mind’ is a completely awe-inspiring astounding blaze of noise. ‘Greed’ launches straight into a blistering 8 mins 20 of layer upon layer of guitar sound, driving rhythms and sounds repetitiously i