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Thomas Büchel - 'Songs About Life and Other Incidents'

Sep 6, 2017
2 min

Thomas Büchel - 'Songs About Life and Other Incidents'

I guess if you consider the subject matter of songs written across the ages the vast majority would fall under the category 'Life', and the 'Incidents' people had along the way. The Danish based musician and songwriter 'Thomas Büchel' in his album 'Songs About Life and Other Incidents' sets this all out in a really honest manner in his debut album, with a short, simple and personal album that documents events across his life, all backed up by some beautifully played guitar.

Jacob Faurholt - new single 'Listening to Devil Town'

Sep 5, 2017
1 min

Jacob Faurholt - new single 'Listening to Devil Town'

Heading off on a summer vacation last month inevitably left us with a backlog, so hopefully you're noticing the pace picking up with a variety of music features being published this week. Unfortunately during that vacation we also missed out on reading some of our other favourite Music Blogs, including a lovely premiere and write up of Jacob Faurholt's video 'A Lake of Distortion' in none other than 'The Music Blog Formally Known As Wake The Deaf', more simply known now as '

Jul 21, 2017
1 min

Introducing.... Ellis May and 'Old Love'

I was thinking about artists we've never written about, but have made an impression over the last few months, and Ellis May (the artist name of Sophia Maj) immediately sprung to mind. Earlier this year she released her startling debut 'Old Love', and I first read about her on Derval McCloats excellent DervSwerv music site (https://dervswerve.wordpress.com/), although I think the track got a fair bit of coverage elsewhere too. 'Old Love' is a captivating track simply because i

Line Bøgh - 'Yellow Moon' single

Jul 19, 2017
1 min

Line Bøgh - 'Yellow Moon' single

It is particularly remiss of us that we haven't featured Line Bøgh previously, but it's possible that less music listeners in the UK will have come across the Danish singer up to now anyway, and we're delighted to correct our lapse now. Line Bøgh is based in Copenhagen, and her music is based around subtle instrumentation and her beautiful crystal clear vocals. In 2015 she released an album 'Something Else and Something Else and Something Else Again', and now she returned in

MALMØ - new single 'Dawn'

Jun 26, 2017
1 min

MALMØ - new single 'Dawn'

After reviewing Eerie Glow, we'll stay in Denmark for a quick mention of a new single from MALMØ, whom we featured back in March when we featured their single 'You'. The Danish band is based around songwriter Maria Malmø, and they'd released 'You' in advance of an album which is due in September and entitled 'We Come From the Stars'. Anyway the new track is called 'Dawn', it was only released Friday, and was another song written by Maria Malmø whilst in the Himalayas - I'm pr

Eerie Glue - 'Love' EP

Jun 26, 2017
2 min

Eerie Glue - 'Love' EP

There are certain bands whom I hear for the very first time and immediately feel a warm glow of reassurance. This seems to be especially true when I come across music clearly influenced by some classic Indie guitar bands of yesteryear. Eerie Glue definitely fit into this category, and their new 'Love' EP mostly hits the mark with a collection of easy to like guitar driven tracks. Eerie Glue are from Denmark, and although they've been around for a while now, they've really ste

Select Captain - new single 'If I Should Go'

Jun 14, 2017
1 min

Select Captain - new single 'If I Should Go'

We have a few new artists to introduce you to this week, but just a quick mention of one of our 'old' favourites, Danish artist 'Select Captain', whom we've featured a few times at Nordic Music Review, and who released a new track whilst we were abroad drinking Mojitos and playing beach soccer (albeit not necessarily at the same time). The new Select Captain release 'If I Should Go' is quite different from most of the tracks on last years 'Strings and Feathers' album release,

She's a Sailor - new single 'Lovely Day'

Jun 14, 2017
1 min

She's a Sailor - new single 'Lovely Day'

I keep meaning to go back to all the new bands and artists we featured in our first month back in 2014 and see what they're up to - some we know have gone on to international fame and fortune, others we sadly haven't heard from since. But one band who are making steady progress are 'She's A Sailor' from Denmark, who are living up to the 'timeless pop' label we put on them by releasing a steady stream of charming pop tracks. Their latest release is 'Lovely Day', and this is ju

Introducing.... Kikos and 'Timeless Melody'

Apr 12, 2017
2 min

Introducing.... Kikos and 'Timeless Melody'

Regular readers will know that when I really like an album I'm hearing for the first time, I'll get to about the 4th track and then excitedly return to the start to listen again. However I can't ever remember doing that halfway through the 1st track of a single which has been sent to us - until now that is, with Danish band 'Kikos' and their simply sensational song 'Timeless Melody'. To give some background about the band first, well Kikos are a Copenhagen based duo (David Kl

Introducing... 'Eli' with single 'Okay'

Apr 11, 2017
1 min

Introducing... 'Eli' with single 'Okay'

We often do features on bands / artists who are appearing at the major music festivals in the Nordic countries - they're a great source of new and emerging talent, and we love making long playlists of all the artists playing and discovering which new artists will be appearing. Coming up soon is SPOT Festival in Denmark, there's a whole stream of artists we need to take a listen to, but first we'd like to introduce you to 'Eli', a new band formed by Danish songwriter HJalte R

March Catch Up!

Mar 31, 2017
3 min

March Catch Up!

I guess if there's one release from March we'd recommend more than anything, it has to be Delay Trees and their flawless indie pop album 'Let Go'. But as always we've been listening to so much more, so here's a round up of other music that we've been listening to this month: Lowly - 'Heba' (Album) It is fairly criminal that we didn't get around to writing in detail about the Lowly album 'Heba since it's release in February, but in fairness it did get a fair amount of coverag

Karmacloud - new single 'The Longing'

Mar 31, 2017
1 min

Karmacloud - new single 'The Longing'

After a lengthy Album and EP review this week, it's good to change our focus and we're delighted to introduce you to a band we haven't covered before at Nordic Music Review, 'Karmacloud', and write about their brand new single which is released today. 'Karmacloud' are a Swedish / Danish / Irish Folk Pop combination, and they have great pedigree as a band, as all 3 met whilst studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston (America, not Lincolnshire...), back in 2012, and they

Introducing.... MALMØ - with single 'You'

Mar 9, 2017
2 min

Introducing.... MALMØ - with single 'You'

photo by Michelle Berg We've written a few times in Nordic Music Review about the really good music blogs in the Nordic region which cover music specific to their own country. Good Because Danish is one of these, and a few weeks back they premiered a track by Danish band MALMØ entitled 'You', the first from their album 'We Come From the Stars' which is due for release in September this year. MALMØ is a band based around Danish songwriter Maria Malmø, they come from the musica

INTERVIEW: ANNA SCHARLING TALKS TO NORDIC MUSIC REVIEW!

Jan 31, 2017
5 min

INTERVIEW: ANNA SCHARLING TALKS TO NORDIC MUSIC REVIEW!

On March 3rd, Danish singer songwriter Anna Scharling will release her debut album entitled 'Sleeping At The Gates'. We spoke to her about her musical background, the album and what else she's been working on. NMR: 'Your songwriting is based around the minimal use of instruments, often just piano or guitar. I was wondering if that was based on the instruments you learnt first as a child or more to do with musical influences later on?' ''I think it was the other way around act

Introducing 'Amelifé & The Little Orchestra' - with debut video 'Birds'

Dec 18, 2016
2 min

Introducing 'Amelifé & The Little Orchestra' - with debut video 'Birds'

As regular readers will know, our location across the sea from the Nordic countries does mean that we can be a little behind in finding out about new artists, but in the case of 'Amelifé & The Little Orchestra' we've actually been aware of her for sometime, and quietly tracking progress towards the release of her debut video. And we're delighted that day has finally arrived, and we have an opportunity to share with you an artist who we think has enormous potential and talent,

Anna Scharling - new single 'I Remember the Darkness' ft Michael Møller

Dec 17, 2016
1 min

Anna Scharling - new single 'I Remember the Darkness' ft Michael Møller

We featured Anna Scharling from Denmark at the end of last year when she released her debut EP, a beautiful set of songs with her pure and intimate voice at the heart of each track. So it's lovely to hear that her first full length album is on it's way, and from that we have a single release which we'd like to share with you. After a week where we've covered a fair few Indie Guitar type bands, it's nice to switch to something so individual, and as we heard in her EP a key fea

Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass

Nov 14, 2016
2 min

Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass

This may be relatively short review for Agnes Obel as our normal rules for more established artists apply - 'Citizen of Glass' is featured in so many different publications and websites far more eminent than ourselves, and why read our unprofessional ramblings when you can read the experts in places such as The Guardian. Anyway this is the 3rd album from the Berlin based Danish artist, her boldest release to date and I've enjoyed getting to know this more than any of her pre

She's A Sailor - 'Back From The Sky' EP

Oct 29, 2016
2 min

She's A Sailor - 'Back From The Sky' EP

We featured 'She's A Sailor' in the first month of Nordic Music Review (I guess on Day 14, given they were New Band of the Day No 14), and every now and then we have a sneaky peak at their Facebook thing to see what they're up to. So we were delighted to spot that their debut EP had finally arrived, it's called 'Back from the Sky', and the Danish band have delivered a lovely set of tracks that will brighten the darkening evenings. The EP features two new brand tracks and two

Select Captain - 'Strings and Feathers'

Oct 20, 2016
2 min

Select Captain - 'Strings and Feathers'

Another artist we've featured previously is Danish songwriter Kristian Gaarskjær and his creation 'Select Captain', and in many ways there are similarities in his new album 'Strings and Feathers' to the ' A Tightrope Wish' album by Swedish band Cape Conrad which we reviewed yesterday. This is artist that I feel instantly comfortable with when listening to his music, his elegant Americana / Indie songwriting is easy to listen to, and it's songwriting which feels fairly tradit

Songs for Iris - 'Mending'

Oct 20, 2016
3 min

Songs for Iris - 'Mending'

As regular readers will know, although we're more than happy to receive submissions direct from bands and accept them too from PR companies, we love searching ourselves for Nordic Artists who we haven't yet come across - gig listings in small venues across the Nordic countries are a good source, but occasionally we revert to Bandcamp - and there's often a gem on there, normally hidden next to the latest releases from the a death metal band with a name far too rude for our inn