I get far too over excited when I get emails from 'small bands in Finland' asking us to take a listen to their new album. This is all the...

It goes without saying that there’s hardly a shortage of talented young Nordic singer songwriters continuing to come through, and a great...

We almost got around to mentioning EXEC, the latest musical project of Danish musician and producer Troels Abrahamsen before Christmas,...

As we reach the end of February we’re now deluged with new 2016 releases to listen to, and a real contrast in styles too, as hopefully...

We introduced you to the world of Matti Jasu and the Loose Train, when they released a couple of pre-album singles before Christmas. We...

After starting the year with an enforced break and already with a huge backlog to work through, it feels good to be writing about...

We’ve had to have a bit of an enforced break unfortunately in January due to work and family things affecting our little group, but we...

Sometimes it does take a while for music to hit home, and when I first listened to Finnish artist ‘Puunhalaaja’ (and the album...

Whilst end of year ‘Best of…’ lists and the more official music awards are all subjective, they do have their uses for finding those gems...

We don’t cover much within the ‘metal’ genre, which is simply a reflection of our complete lack of expertise in this area (which will no...

Back to Denmark for our 4th album in this ‘In Short’ series, an excellent debut offering from Danish band Magnolia Shoals called...

We probably hung back from reviewing Norwegian band Dråpe and their album ‘Relax / Relapse’ when it was released in October, because it...

The next in our 'In Short' series is the Finnish outfit Satan’s Fingers, who’s name frequently appears online and leaves me increasingly...

We’re squeezing in an ‘In Short’ series of 8 Artists / Bands just before Christmas that we missed earlier in the year when they released...

A couple of people have kindly said to us lately that they like Nordic Music Review because in addition to the more traditional indie...

I try not to read Album reviews before I review them myself, because I don’t want to have my opinion swayed – especially if the reviewer...

We covered Amasons album ‘Sky City’ a couple of months late, and it reminded me of another album which I’ve enjoyed listening to, but...

We mean to write about the Amason album ‘Sky City’ when it first came out (I think it reached the UK late August), but it had received a...

Yesterday we reviewed ‘Lockerbie’ and their album ‘Hafari, and we’re sticking with native languages for a few words about a recent album...

One of the many things I like about Icelandic music (it’s a long list obviously…), is the level of collaboration and sharing of musicians...