Three more introductions today to artists we've not featured before, and an update from someone we've written about previously. We'll start by heading over to Denmark and 'Valmai', a musician who has made a real impression with her debut track 'Botany' - one of 6 tracks from her debut EP 'Magma'. 'Valmai' is the solo project by Stine Drejer from Denmark (remember the days when people used their own names?), a musician who's been involved in a few projects, but together with c

So we've covered post punk, folk pop and some music that seems to fit in between a variety of genres, we'll head into the weekend now with an absolutely lovely album from a Polish born composer, who is now residing in Copenhagen. Sebastian Zawadzki trained as a jazz pianist, released an improvised jazz album entitled ”Luminescence” in 2014, as well as works composed for a jazz piano trio and string quartet ”Euphony” in 2015. However his compositions have since developed int

To contrast with that quite blistering track from 'Sauropod', we'll return to another track from a familiar face and name in Nordic Music Review, Danish singer songwriter 'Select Captain'. This year he is releasing a stream of singles leading up to his new album, a follow up to his 2016 release 'Strings and Feathers', and the latest is 'Highest Peak'. It was co-written and produced by none other than Esben Svane, the man behind the excellent The Radar Post, an artist we hold

So following on for 'The Presolar Sands', we switch back to Denmark and a band that we've mentioned a few times on here and on Social Media, but we've never actually formally written about. 'Baby In Vain' are a 3 piece band who've been around for a few years, and have made a big impression with a stream of good releases, including their excellent album 'More Nothing' which was released last August - we pointed people in its direction as a recommendation before we headed off

There's been somewhat of a Danish theme to our features this week, with an introduction to 'Fred Seul', and re-acquainting ourselves with 'Ghost of Belle Starr', and we'll continue with a band who are at least partially Danish, and who include a member who should be no stranger to regular readers. 'State of Sea' are a 3 piece band containing the singer songwriter Anna Scharling, who we've written about a couple of times, and she's joined in this project by 2 musicians / songw

Today we introduce 2 new artists / bands, and both are from Denmark, with the first being 'Fred Seul', who has an approach to songwriting which is really individual, and pretty refreshing too - I think this will go down pretty well irrespective of the style of music you normally listen to. Anyway he's a young 24 year old songwriter, and his music is crafted around his passion for social activism, and that's particularly apparent in his debut single. 'Lights will Come (After L

We're starting the week with a Danish band we featured in the very dim and distance past, 'Ghost of Belle Starr'. They were actually one of the first new bands we ever featured, when we launched with our '50 New Bands in 50 days' feature, and they then released an excellent self titled EP in 2015, the highlight of which remains 'Sun in My Eyes', partly because it's happily sat on a favourite running playlist for the last 3 years. Anyway they're back, and they have a slightly

Before we head off for our epic Easter journey armed with about 5 albums we may or may not write reviews on (although Stine Stjern is a definite), we have 2 new releases to tell you about. 'Catch the Breeze' are from Denmark, and they're a trio from Aarhus and Copenhagen who write melodic indie rock which at times soars towards blissful post rock, with an intensity that never eases and an eye for a good tune throughout. The trio were formed back in 2014, formed out of the bac

We have a simply mammoth collection of albums, singles, videos and UK gig information to write about this week, so please keep checking the site for the latest updates, and we'll start off with Danish band MALMØ. who we first wrote about last March when they released their single 'You'. For those of you who don't remember, MALMØ are based around the singer songwriter Maria Malmo, with a collection of talented musicians around her. Their album had a Danish release last year, a

Just one update today as unfortunately work, travel requirements and 'Storm Emma' are somewhat conspiring against me. We featured Danish band 'Another Juggle' back in 2016 when they released a really interesting album packed full of big melodies entitled 'Dance Sunshine, Dance'. It's still available, obviously, on streaming services so try and check it out if you weren't reading us back then. The good news is that the dream pop quartet from Copenhagen are back with a track en

We're surpassing even our own expectations with 2 EP reviews from Denmark in one day, and this is another really good one. 'OHHIOH', also from Copenhagen, might have a more conventional 5 person line-up and sound than Logans Runners, but they also have something distinct about them that I like - as well as melodies which meander off in unusual directions, all against a backdrop of a twangy guitar sound. Given we have featured some fairly unusual stuff of late, this will give

We have an interesting mix of releases this this week, hopefully one a day, and a couple of live previews too for events in London and Manchester, and we'll start off with an artist who originates from Manchester but is now based in Copenhagen. Liam Mullany is the founder of Logans Runners, but critically he's collected a lovely assortment of musicians around him, and the result is an unusual, but always musical release in their 'Sandbox' EP. There are 4 tracks on the EP whic

We haven't quite yet got to that stack of albums we want to review, but we have a plan and hope we can get through them all. We're certainly going to avoid dropping in too many singles ahead of album releases, and will try and concentrate on the full album instead, but that's sometimes difficult to resist - especially in the case of the recent 'Son of Caesar' single entitled 'Strange Heroes', released ahead of his planned album release in April. So for those of you who don't

This weeks main focus is to write album reviews, but we'll keep dropping in some new tracks, and the new single 'Teenage Dream' from 'Black Light White Light' is definitely worth highlighting, and it's yet another great psychedelic influenced track coming out of Denmark (with some help from Sweden) too. So 'Black Light White Light' was originally the sole creation of musician Martin Ejlertsen, formed in Copenhagen back in 2009, and with the support of fellow musicians they ha

As I keep mentioning, we're trying to shift the focus back to more Albums and EPs, but we've done pretty well this week so far, so we're delighted to highlight a new Select Captain single release today, and it also gives us an opportunity to write a few words about an album we missed last year. Select Captain is no stranger to this website as we've featured him a few times before, and yesterday he released the 3rd single in advance of new album, which should be ready around S

We have an interesting collection of tracks and albums to take us up to Christmas Eve, then we'll take a break for a few days before returning with our Albums of the Year list, traditionally released around New Years Eve. We'll start the process rolling with a Danish artist who is part of an unusual Danish / Jutland collective called 'urall.me'. So 'urall.me' are a trio of artists / musicians, their production of visual art is central to their work, and initially they started

We were going to try and get to this before our final break of the year, so apologies for being a few days late, but we think everyone will like this track from Danish noise fuzz outfit 'Alcabean' entitled 'Blood Pose', which was released on 1st December. This is another band we haven't featured before, and that's somewhat of a pity, because their 2016 debut EP 'Real Time Fiction' is a broody noise filled indie rock success with more than a hint of The Smashing Pumpkins. Thei

We've featured a few Nordic artists who combine both Visual Art and Music in their releases, and in Francis Bowie from Denmark we have someone who has been an art gallery owner and exhibitor, an author and a musician. Clearly he is an artist who likes to expressive himself in many ways, and in his new single 'Let Everything Live' he makes a point pretty directly about letting everyone express their ideas in their own way. 'Let Everything Live' is an electronically conceived

If you didn't know, it is our birthday today, and it's great to see that the annual tradition where ALL our readers send us beer on our birthday is continuing. We'll keep drinking the beer and writing increasingly unfathomable reviews of the finest Nordic music that we can find, and today it is the turn of a particularly interesting Danish band called 'The Sleeplings', who's brilliantly titled album 'Elusive Lights of the Long-forgotten', was released sometime back. Now this

So Nordic Music Review is 3 years old today, and we would make a thing of it and do something special, but we just have this typically huge backlog right now which, if truth be told, just makes it a whole lot less fun. Instead we'll keep writing about the music, and it's particularly great to write about Danish duo 'Shy Shy Shy' because we wrote about them over 12 months ago suggesting they would continue do really well, and they've done exactly that with some great live app