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'Maple & Rye' - 'Con of the Century' (single)

Andy Wors

Jan 27, 2020
2 min

'Maple & Rye' - 'Con of the Century' (single)

So this week we hope to have a bumper week of features, with releases from 'Big Fox', 'Orochen', Siv Jakobsen, 'Dolorifics', and brief album reviews from 'Folke Nikanor' and Martin Månsson Sjöstrand Trio - I'm sure there's a few I've forgotten. But we'll start Monday with an upbeat track from Swedish band 'Maple & Rye', who manage to fuse together a high energy melodic style with darker and more thoughtful lyrics in their track 'Con of the Century' - the 1st release from thei

'Between Mountains' - 'Little Lies' (from the album 'Between Mountains')

Andy Wors

Nov 4, 2019
2 min

'Between Mountains' - 'Little Lies' (from the album 'Between Mountains')

So we start with a week with a lovely album for us all to get immersed into, and it's a release from none other than 'Between Mountains', whom we first featured way back in 2017, shortly after they won the prestigious 'Músíktilraunir' - Iceland's Battle of the Bands Competition. At the time the duo from the Westfjords (Katla and Ásrós) were both under 16 years old, and it's still pretty extraordinary that they've managed to get an album fully written and recorded when they're

'I See Rivers' - 'Helios' (single) - and Kickstarter album appeal!

Andy Wors

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

'I See Rivers' - 'Helios' (single) - and Kickstarter album appeal!

After a 'Junus Horribilis' I just want to write about some of my favourite bands, so expect some 'Moron Police', 'The School Book Depository' and maybe even '1900' soon, but way out top of the list to feature is 'I See Rivers', because they're just continuing to make such a great impression wherever they go, and they've released a brand new single entitled 'Helios' with some plans for an album in 2020 too. I'm kind of hoping that our frequent coverage of the band means they d

'Stranger Things' - new single 'Enemy' (plus 'Gravity' EP from 2018)

Andy Wors

Feb 18, 2019
1 min

'Stranger Things' - new single 'Enemy' (plus 'Gravity' EP from 2018)

We have a couple of singles / new artist introductions today (both Swedish), before we return to the list of new Album / EP releases currently stacked up on our playlist. The first is quite simply a lovely song by duo 'Stranger Things' who first formed way back in 2010, released a debut EP in 2012 but didn't release anything again until last year, when they released an EP in Spring entitled 'Gravity'. The duo comprise Gabriel Wingård and Anna Falk from Stockholm, and having

Introducing.... 'A. Bird' with track 'Easy'

Andy Wors

Jan 29, 2019
1 min

Introducing.... 'A. Bird' with track 'Easy'

Our focus on Albums and EP's continues, later we'll have a short Junius Meyvant review, and there's releases by Jon-Olov Woxlin, 'SUNDAYS', 'Melba Vision' and many more to consider before we're treated to more Album release by 'Highasakite' and 'Spielbergs' this Friday. But first a new introduction, and whilst sometimes we get pages of biographic background on new artists sent to us, it was reassuring to be sent something last week that simply said ''A. Bird is a folk-pop ar

Andy Wors

Jul 16, 2018
1 min

'Lac Belot' - new track 'Cry Baby'

We'll start the week by heading in the direction of an artist who's quickly becoming an 'old favourite' in Nordic Music Review, even though he's still only released a handful of tracks and a couple of months away from his debut album. 'Lac Belot' is the project of Finnish musician Jarno Takkumäki, and regular readers will remember that we featured him fairly recently after his release of 'D'N'A', seemingly years after we first wrote about his lovely debut track 'Elizabeth'.

Introducing... 'Bolivar' - with track 'Time for life (Note to self)'

Andy Wors

Jun 29, 2018
2 min

Introducing... 'Bolivar' - with track 'Time for life (Note to self)'

So here's a slightly different twist on our selection of folk influenced EP's and tracks that we're featuring today. 'Ole Halvard Sveen' is more well known for his contribution to metal bands such as 'Extol', 'Mantric' and 'Lengsel', but he's always been a multi-talented fellow, playing guitar and drums, as well as writing songs and singing vocal. Now he's stripped back his songwriting completely, and writing under the name 'Bolivar' he's producing a very different type of so

Andy Wors

Jun 29, 2018
2 min

'I Am Soyuz' - Appendix 'EP'

So we've got 4 Nordic artists today who all lean more heavily towards folk music in their influences, and we'll try and cover a wide variety of styles, as well as a mix of well established artists and those that haven't yet got as much attention. We'll start off with Swedish based songwriter 'I Am Soyuz', the musical project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Felicia Bozoky, who writes dreamy and melodic tracks that are very easy to like on first listen. After ge

Introducing.... 'Riike Mo' - with debut single 'Desperate'

Andy Wors

May 24, 2018
1 min

Introducing.... 'Riike Mo' - with debut single 'Desperate'

Our short features on new artists continue with another new name from Sweden, but someone who I think is going to make a really big impression - certainly the positive response he's getting from different music blogs across the world suggests he has something interesting about him. Behind 'Riike Mo' is the singer songwriter Eric Moberg, and he has written, arranged, produced and played on his debut track 'Desperate' - a track which considers the 'fear of looking into your own

'Ludvig the Band' with track 'Descendant'

Andy Wors

May 11, 2018
2 min

'Ludvig the Band' with track 'Descendant'

Apologies for the slight delay on posts for a few days, sometimes stuff gets in the way of writing about lovely music, I wish it didn't, but it does. But we're back with 'vengeance' today, and after being able to announce earlier the amazing news about our collaboration with Major Parkinson and their debut UK gigs, we can now also tell you about the most lovely of tracks from a new name to Nordic Music Review, 'Ludvig the Band'. 'Ludvig the Band' (and I particularly love the

Introducing...'The Hangers' with debut 'Medievil'

Andy Wors

Apr 27, 2018
2 min

Introducing...'The Hangers' with debut 'Medievil'

We should have written about this debut from Finnish band 'The Hangers' last month, as I liked their song as soon as I heard it, but the sheer scale of submissions left us slightly overwhelmed, and we're only just getting back on top of things. So we'll correct that right now, as they're a young 5 piece band studying in Espoo who write laid back folk pop tunes, with nice melodies and distinct vocals. The story behind their track 'Medievil' is actually pretty simple, because t