I'm not convinced too many people read every word of our long detailed reviews, so we'll do our best to keep our 'Caper Clowns' waffling relatively short and sweet. Instead we'll simply point you all in the direction of the curiously named 'A Salty Taste To The Lake' before heading off for a cup of finest British tea (even if we're far more European right now), content in the knowledge that we've recommended an Album that will keep you entertained to the end of the year. OK m

We never shy from featuring bands that cross over between multiple different genres, experiment with the boundaries of rock and pop, whether it's the wonderful 'Frisk Frugt' or more obviously 'Major Parkinson', but we try to avoid resorting to use of the phrase 'it's like nothing we've heard before', simply because all bands are influenced by someone else back through the decades, and it's 'just' music after all. Also I guess it's our job to try and describe the strange noise

We have a small collection of newish Nordic Albums and EP's we've been hoarding, and in order to get through them all we're going to try and keep our reviews relatively short and concise, starting with Danish artist 'Josa Barck's album 'Keep Your Batteries Warm', which was released in Denmark through Tangleville Records in conjunction with the Wonder Why Music Company couple of weeks ago. 'Josa Barck' (otherwise known as the musician Jacob Rask) is certainly an interesting ch

Last Friday we wrote about the fantastic new single release from 'Strangers on a Train', and this week they have new 'labelmates' thanks to the ever excellent Celebration Records signing up fellow Danish indie rock band 'Kúlu' on to an ever growing roster, which already includes bands we've featured such as 'Son of Caesar' and 'Death Machine'. 'Kúlu' might well be a new name, but as is often the case, all 4 members, Asger Techau, Daniel Buchwald, Dennis Winterskov and Søren S

We're just far too unreliable to do 'Single of the Week' type features every week, but if we did then the brand new single (out today) from 'Strangers on a Train' would easily be the stand out track for this week (and even the month). With an extraordinary mix of cabaret, rock, folk and the odd drunken pirate tale, they're another band we haven't featured before, but in fairness to us they haven't released any new material for 3 years since their debut album 'The Doghouse Su

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

We try not to drop in new music without much comment, but Danish band 'Communions' do get a fair amount of coverage elsewhere, so we'll just post this up and let you all add it to your latest playlists. We first featured the 4 piece band from Copenhagen back in 2015 on release of their debut self titled EP, and last years album 'Blue' received plaudits from far afield. Anyway they're back with 'Is This How Love Should Feel', and it's simply a really good indie guitar track, t

We love featuring contrasts in music, and after the murky beats and vocals of 'Pheeyownah' we present a fresh melodic sounding track from Danish songwriter Alice Rose, who is due to release a new album on 9th November (along it seems with everyone else...) charmingly entitled 'What To Do in the Rain'. Alice Rose is yet another Nordic musician we've not yet featured even though she's released 3 studio albums to date, although in fairness the last one was released back in 2013,

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're finally starting to make progress and I can promise you that next week will be a bumper week of music features. But today we have just one new track to bring you and it's from a band we've featured a couple of times before, 'The Oceans' from Denmark. As regular readers will be aware, 'The Oceans' are based around 2 Copenhagen musicians, Dan Joe and Linus Valdemar, and they write consistently good indie guitar music in a really distinct style that seems to be getting th

We try to introduce as many new artists as possible (and have a new band introduction coming up tonight), but we are trying to follow the progress of Danish songwriter 'Fred Seul', as he made such an impression both lyrically and musically with his first single which was entitled 'Lights Will Come (After Long'), and which was followed up by another interesting song called 'Wolves', both of which you can obviously find on streaming services. Anyway his latest track is entitle

We have a queue of Album Reviews ('Cinnamon Space Machine', Rami Vierula and 'Lac Belot' amongst others), but to keep the momentum going here's an ice cool band from Denmark that we've yet to feature in Nordic Music Review, but that have the ability to both warm your heart and simultaneously send a cold chill down your spine. We're delighted to introduce you to 'Felines': So 'Felines' are from Copenhagen and comprise Ditte Melgaard on guitar, Mei-Long Bao on drums and Asta L

It has been a scandalously inefficient week of Nordic Music Review writing, but the music continues and we're delighted to head back to Denmark and a band who first made a really good impression when we wrote about them in July. 'The Oceans' are based around Dan Joe and Linus Valdemar, 2 Copenhagen based musicians who have combined to write upbeat indie music, which also favourably reminds me of a number of British indie bands from the last couple of decades. Their latest tra

I'm still slightly overcome by just how good the 'Belle Jar' release is, but we have a mountain of new releases to tell you about this week, and we'll start with something very different from the norm. 'Maleen' is a Danish singer songwriter who fuses together both rock and classical influences to create a distinct and original sound, as well as using the beauty and force of her natural surroundings as a backdrop to her music. Similarly to many musicians of the current era, wh

It's always a struggle to get moving after summer vacation, it seems to trigger 'writers block' and general inertia, but we have to get moving or the backlog will just be totally absurd. So maybe the best way to kickstart things is to return to the genre of music I'm most comfortable and familiar with, and a brief introduction to a band who have been sitting on my new music playlist for the last few months. 'ilt' are from Denmark, and they are sit bang right in the middle of

We've featured a few of the 'Live At Tapetown' series and in the latest release we're fortunate enough to be offered a performance by a band whom we've featured a few times in Nordic Music Review, and whom were responsible for one of our 'Favourite Albums of 2017' (details are still up on our website). 'ONBC' are the band, the album I refer to was the excellent 'Travelmate', and this latest live session performance is an intense 6 minute version of their track 'Copenhagen' -

Time for another introduction and this time we head back to Denmark for a band who might not exactly pass our 'googlability' test for new band names, but just make such a great noise that we wanted to write about them anyway. So 'The Oceans' are from Copenhagen, and they're based around 2 multi-instrumentalists Dan Joe and Linus Valdemar who's approach is to simply blast us into submission with guitars, melodies and more guitars - an approach we very much like at Nordic Musi

To contrast with that simple but charming piano piece, our second classical relesase today is by Danish composer 'Frederik Magle', possibly the most 'established' of classical style composers we've written about given that he has had compositions performed all over the world, with commissions from the Danish Royal Family to performances of his work by none other than the London Philharmonic Orchestra. But he has also collaborated with fellow musicians from different genres, i

Well that was all a bit stressful and exhausting last night wasn't it? Thankfully we now have 3 days off to recover from Glenn Hoddle's football summarising on the TV and can concentrate on a bundle of new music. Over the next 2 days we'll introduce you to 5 bands that we haven't featured before (one from each of the Nordic countries), and we'll start off with 'Lightwave Empire', a Danish indie pop band who's name I spotted when they first played at the Roskilde Music festi

After the 'Kid Forest' trilogy courtesy of 'Teddy and the Love Gang', we head over to Denmark for another unusual approach to songwriting - but one that I like very much as it combines music with the art of the comic strip. The project name is 'Oh Lois', and the music is interesting and inventive too, so it's quite easy to listen purely based on the album. Behind 'Oh Lois' is the songwriter Søren Manscher, previously singer of the band 'Harmonics', and sitting alongside the