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NMR Indie Playlist


Jón Þór - 'Frúin í Hamborg' EP
Another release which has had multiple listens over the last few weeks has been an EP from a long standing but independent member of the...
Andy Wors
Dec 14, 20162 min read


Suð - 'Meira suð'
Nordic Music Review is 2 years old today, and whilst new bands keep emerging, it's always great to see an older band that we previously...
Andy Wors
Nov 21, 20163 min read


Rythmatik - 'Waves' EP
There are a few new bands / artists that we've been meaning to feature who appeared at the Iceland Airwaves festival a few weeks back,...
Andy Wors
Nov 16, 20162 min read


₩€$€₦ - Wall Of Pain
We've been on a roll with album reviews in the last couple of weeks, which is a good thing as it shows the variety of good quality...
Andy Wors
Nov 2, 20162 min read


KRÍA - Altaka 'EP'
Aside from Norwegian progressive metal band Asmodean, there was another new release we were planning on covering yesterday, but...
Andy Wors
Nov 1, 20161 min read


Knife Fights - new EP and video 'Tails'
We've been listening to Knife Fights for a few weeks now, and it's been a bit remiss of us not to have written something before. The...
Andy Wors
Oct 6, 20161 min read


Ólafur Arnalds - 'Island Songs'
It has been particularly remiss of us not to write about Ólafur Arnalds astonishing collection of tracks, written and released over the...
Andy Wors
Sep 14, 20162 min read


Pascal Pinon - 'Sundur'
We wrote about the pre album single release by Pascal Pinon - Icelandic twins Jófríður (also of Samaris) and Ásthildur Ákadóttir before...
Andy Wors
Sep 7, 20162 min read
Pascal Pinon - new tracks, album soon....
I'm really not going to write much about Pascal Pinon, as I'm sure we'll review the album at the end of August when it comes out, and...
Andy Wors
Jul 18, 20161 min read


Júníus Meyvant - 'Floating Harmonies'
After a couple of weeks listening to 'The Culture In Memoriam' and their album 'History's Dust', it's probably done me the world of good...
Andy Wors
Jul 13, 20163 min read


Sigur Rós - 'Óveður' single and video
Having the privilege of seeing Sigur Rós live remains one of my best gig experiences ever, they are utterly spellbinding and special, and...
Andy Wors
Jun 27, 20161 min read


CeaseTone - 'Two Strangers'
One of the big advantages of being a small independent website, who write purely for the love of the music, is that ‘holidays’ are...
Andy Wors
Jun 8, 20162 min read


Halleluwah - 'Halleluwah'
Sometimes I get annoyed with myself when I come across Album Releases from a few months ago that we missed, but in reality I shouldn’t...
Andy Wors
Feb 15, 20162 min read


Lockerbie - 'Kafari'
One of the many things I like about Icelandic music (it’s a long list obviously…), is the level of collaboration and sharing of musicians...
Andy Wors
Nov 12, 20153 min read


John Grant - 'Grey Tickles, Black Pressure'
I’m still not entirely sure what residency rules we need to apply for artists not actually from Nordic countries but who reside there. I...
Andy Wors
Nov 2, 20152 min read


Soffia Björg - 'Back & Back Again' Single and Video
We wrote about Finnish group White Balance on Wednesday, one of the first bands we featured in Nordic Music Review when we launched with...
Andy Wors
Nov 1, 20152 min read


CeaseTone - 'Full Circle' Single and Video
Another newish band we featured a while back were CeaseTone from Iceland, who we’d come across after they’d released a brilliant quirky,...
Andy Wors
Nov 1, 20151 min read


Svavar Knútur - 'Brot (The Breaking)'
We haven’t mentioned Svavar Knútur on our website before, so we’re delighted to be able to write a few words about his new album which is...
Andy Wors
Oct 5, 20152 min read


New Band - 'Hinemoa'
Similarly to ‘Of the Valley, we were tipped off about the existence of ‘Hinemoa’ by a really kind and knowledgeable follower on Twitter a...
Andy Wors
Sep 29, 20151 min read


My Brother is Pale - 'Battery Low'
We don’t have time to construct a full on review of the new album by ‘My Brother is Pale’, but theyre another band who we’ve wanted to...
Andy Wors
Sep 15, 20151 min read
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