If truth be told, I wasnt a huge fan of Mew when i first heard them. Now I realise that in many peoples eyes this should probably forbid...

As I mentioned in the last post on Nordic Music Review, it wasnt easy getting back into the routine of writing reviews. Listening to new...

We haven’t featured that many Albums sung in their native language at Nordic Music Review - probably because the majority of releases we...

We’ve told a few people who’ve asked that Nordic Music Review was set up after the ‘Collective’ went to see Norwegian songwriter Moddi in...

We were writing earlier on Nordic Music Review about Danish singer songwriter Il Tempo Gigante, and his growing reputation as a live...

It can take months and months of me listening to an album before I suddenly realise how much I love it, a trait which frequently bemuses...

There are some of my most treasured albums that made such an immediate impression on me that I remember exactly when and where I was when...

I cant deny that one of the first things that attracted me to Norwegian band ‘Green Sky Accident’ was the name. Its not a particularly...

We seem to have been waiting for Norwegian all girl group Katzenjammers album ‘Rockland’ for some time. I think its had a staggered...

We’re not going to say a huge amount about the new Susanne Sundfør album ‘Ten Love Songs’. This is not a sign of criticism in the...

I’m normally far too balanced for my own good. I’m quite happy to accept that not everyone will like the stuff i like. Take Team Me for...

I'm going to start showing my age again here, but I can't hide the fact that some of my earliest musical influences and purchases were in...

Whilst I clearly have an undeniable bias towards bands with jangly, acoustic or simply loud guitars, its good to be pushed towards Albums...

Not all albums need to be philosophical and soulful, coated with melancholy. I sometimes feel that bands like The Feeling got an overly...

One of the aims of our little enterprise is to give more attention to Album releases, which in the world of Playlists and streaming...

I know there's a lot of end of year lists out there, but it is a great opportunity to try and find albums which may have passed us by, or...

I have no idea where I first came across Neondad, but their track ‘Dictator‘ has been sitting on a new music playlist that I’ve been...

We’ve written before about the apparent effortless ability of Nordic artists to be able to combine different types of music to produce...

I guess one of the reasons why I like a lot of Nordic bands is because there appears to be a creative freedom which naturally allows...

Do you ever hear a band for the 1st time, and within a few seconds have an instinct you’ll like them? Probably fairly rarely…. but to...