We featured Norwegian band 'St Bennett's' a few weeks ago when they released 'Oh Sweet Devil', the tale of the farmer who heads out on to the battlefield following the death of his daughter and wife. Anyway the cheery fables of 'St Bennett's' farmer continue, and 'Avery' is another entertaining musical story from the band who fuse alternative rock anthems with a folk narrative. So if you didn't read our first feature on 'St Bennetts', well they follow in the footsteps of som

We have 2 rather good tracks to bring you tonight, even if I do say so myself. The first, somewhat inevitably, comes from Bergen in Norway, a city we've not visited musically for at least one whole week, and it's to introduce you all to a band that I particularly like because it's very much my type of musical nonsense. 'St. Bennetts' are a 4 piece band that have been around for a while, and I have listened to an old track, but I think it's their new material which will really

We have some really good new albums to feature this week, including releases from 'Highasakite', The Spielbergs' and a particular favourite 'Acres Wild', but just take a few minutes of your day to listen to this sizzling track from Danish based band 'Bonnie Cried'. Although the 4 band members appear to come from across the world (I think the latest line-up is a mix of New Zealand, USA, Denmark and Iceland), they're based from Århus, which just has such a good music scene, and

The moment we tire of getting submissions from Nordic bands we haven't previously come across with full EPs and Albums to get stuck into will be the day we hang up our headphones - we'll never forget the impact the likes of 'The Stillwalkers' made. And whilst it's unlikely that Danish band 'Melba Vision' will be heading our Releases of the Year list as the Finnish band did, their new EP 'Favours for Favours' is a highly enjoyable and at times intense alternative rock release

It's extremely remiss of us never to have covered Danish band 'The Entrepreneurs' before, because they've been making such an impression on the Danish music scene for a while, but we'll correct that now with a live performance of their new single 'Heroine', straight from the forthcoming debut album entitled 'Noise and Romance', which will be released on the excellent Tambourhinoceros label. The 3 piece band from Copenhagen were formed back in 2014, released their highly prais

The variety of genres we're covering this week continues today with 2 more bands / artists we haven't featured before, one neo-classically influenced, but firstly we head to Sweden for a band who fuse together a mix of alternative rock styles. 'Candide Baby' are another new band to Nordic Music Review, but they did release their debut EP last year entitled 'A Loser Inside Your Head', which contains 6 tracks and you can obviously still find it online. They write highly charged

Regular readers might be slightly thrown by the fact that we wrote a review last week of the new Rosa Jules EP (and very good it was too) , but today it is the turn of 'Roxy Jules' who recently released her 4th album, and which in line with her previous release, is entitled 'Roxy Jules IV. Now this really is a fascinating album to get really stuck into. and I know I'm not even going to scratch the surface today, so we'll highlight a couple of our favourite tracks and then sen

We like to mix up the styles, so after the delicacy of 'Sara Forslund' it feels essential to switch to a band who mostly play heavy, dirty grunge driven rock, and are almost the polar opposite of the musical spectrum. 'Box of Flies' (unfortunately they're not some weird offshoot of previously featured 'Army of Moths') are from 'Melhus', just a short drive from Trondheim and the 3 piece consisting of Tormod Brede, Eirik Estenstad and Henning Sigstad released an album on Arcti

Swedish band 'JUNODEF' have actually been around since 2015, so it's typically remiss of us to have somehow missed them over the last 3 years, despite favourable coverage in 2 of our favourite independent music websites, 'For The Rabbits' and the ever excellent 'Revue'. Originally formed by Tyra Örnberg and Karin Grönkvist, they were later joined by drummer Norea Persson and pianist Rode Grönkvist and they've now based themselves in London - which probably shows how intent t

Music arrives to Nordic Music Review in all kind of ways - emails, the excellent Submit Hub, twitter messages, by scouring other (far more reliable...) music websites, Bandcamp, Nordic gig and festival listings, the list is simply endless. How Swedish 4 piece band 'Cinnamon Space Machine' ended up downloaded on our new album playlist on Spotify (many months back) is more confusing, they just simply appeared one day, and maybe that's appropriate for a psychedelic rock band who

We have 2 classically influenced releases to consider tonight / tomorrow, but before we get to those we have an update on another band whom we've featured before at Nordic Music Review - this time it's 'Rythmatik' from Iceland. We first wrote about this band some 18 months ago when they released their 'Waves' EP, and since the band have continued to develop their reputation as an excellent proposition live. Previously winners of he prestigious 'Iceland 'Battle of the Bands -

So we'll keep the introductions to new music going with a Swedish band with a very different approach to songwriting than 'Hockney', whom we wrote about earlier. 'Skudpadda' are from Gothenburg and they're a 6 piece band who write expansive and ambitious psycadelic indie-rock, with maybe a hint of post rock and shoegaze influences - although actually their sound is pretty distinct, which keeps it interesting. They first came to prominence in 2016 when they released their EP '

We're really trying to mix up the music styles today, and we'll be finishing up by heading into the 'neo-classical' world next, but firstly we'll introduce a band that I'm not entirely sure how I should try and define - which in my eyes is a good thing. 'When the World Sleeps' are an alternative rock band from Sweden, but their music is bedded within a 'popular' sounding style which should give them widespread appeal, whilst at the same time clearly having some influences fro

Our Friday tour of all genres and all Nordic countries takes us quickly to Norway, and a quite excellent single which has just arrived on our virtual doorstep. Sauropod are from Norway, and they're a 3 piece grunge rock band who have made a pretty big impression since they were formed a couple of years back, and are likely to make an even bigger impact going forward, if their new single is anything to go by. 'I Know Where You've Been' has a blistering guitar opening, but I j

We're probably not going to write a huge amount on Norwegian band 'Speilbergs' because actually they've been featured on almost every half decent music website (and now an average one too...) in the last couple of weeks, from NME to the excellent Clash Magazine. Their new single, cheerily entitled 'We Are All Going to Die' is the type of song which will have stunned everyone into collective silence, before they frantically started grabbing at their quills to write about what

Just one short feature tonight, an introduction to a project which were first formed almost 14 years ago, but never quite emerged from the shadows. 'Lime' comprise of 2 Swedish brothers, Rickard and Niklas Kolberg who, after being featured on a compilation album, somehow managed to get themselves a gig at an Argentinian music festival. Finding out last minute that the festival was electronic and not rock, they adapted their guitar based tracks to fit in with the other artists

Sometimes it takes us a while to find our feet in the New Year, but we have a wealth of new music to feature, and (inevitably) some catching up to do from 2017 - the year in which we started with a backlog, finished with a backlog, and maintained a backlog during the middle bits too. We'll start 2018 with 'Orochen' and their 4 track digital self titled release which came out just 8 days before Christmas itself. The Orochen people are one of the oldest ethnic groups in China.