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'Beverly Kills' - 'I Dreamt in Commercials (single)

Feb 19, 2020
1 min

'Beverly Kills' - 'I Dreamt in Commercials (single)

We belatedly featured 'Beverly Kills' for the 1st time earlier last year when they released their excellent track 'Revellers' and the Swedish band have continued to build an impressive reputation, playing showcase festivals, sold out venues and being recognised in media internationally. Yet up until now they've still only released 5 singles, with the 6th being their new song 'I Dreamt in Commercials', which will form part of a debut EP release due in April on 'Welfare Sounds

Introducing... 'Guds Pengar' with single 'Borttappad'

Dec 19, 2019
1 min

Introducing... 'Guds Pengar' with single 'Borttappad'

After the quiet but beautiful strains of 'Temilia', we switch direction with an introduction to a band we're genuinely really excited about. 'Guds Pengar' are again from Sweden, they've recently signed to the always excellent 'Rama Lama Records', who's current artist roster includes the likes of 'Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes', the brilliant 'Melby', Julia Rakel and Delso Beach Club - all of whom who've been fortune / unfortunate enough (delete as appropriate) to be featured in

In Short: ‘Agacy’ - ‘The Space Between our Lips’

Dec 2, 2019
2 min

In Short: ‘Agacy’ - ‘The Space Between our Lips’

We have a good selection of albums to introduce (including ‘Tuvaband’, ‘Warning Warning’ and more), so we’ll try and keep things short and simple to get through as many as possible. We’ll start with Swedish artist ‘Agacy’ who has released his debut album ‘The Space Between our Lips’ day on ‘Yellow Step Records’, the same label that we introduced when writing about ‘Björn Falk’ on Friday. Behind ‘Agacy’ is the Swedish songwriter Adam Agace, who is also the bass player and co-s

'Twin Dive' - 'Holly' (video)

Dec 2, 2019
1 min

'Twin Dive' - 'Holly' (video)

We covered a huge selection of releases on our birthday (Friday / Saturday), and we have some album reviews planned for this week ('Warning Warning' and more), but just a quick video to start the week, because what everyone needs on a very cold and icy Monday morning is some charming Vietnemese ladies dancing to some warped Post Punk guitar music. It comes courtesy of Danish band 'Twin Dive', whom we haven't featured before, and their music is alternative guitar driven noise,

Introducing.... 'Merriment and Dirt' with 'Final Boogie' (EP)

Nov 12, 2019
2 min

Introducing.... 'Merriment and Dirt' with 'Final Boogie' (EP)

We were going to save this one for next week, but there's something so infectiously likeable about 'Merriment and Dirt', that I thought we should bump it up the queue - and anyway there's a whole stack of new releases on the list for next week already. So these guys are a 4 piece based between Helsinki and London, and they seem to have arrived there Belgrade and Berlin - or possibly the other way around, not that we really care that much anyway. So 'Merriment and Dirt', comp

'Cherokee Death Cats' - 'Sick' EP

Nov 7, 2019
2 min

'Cherokee Death Cats' - 'Sick' EP

After featuring 'rauður' and 'Elmarit', I do feel we need to mix things up somewhat, and 'Cherokee Death Cats' sound like the perfect band to do it. They're an Anglo / Swedish duo based out of Gothenburg, comprising Bea Persson and Rat Westlake and their music is a mix of garage rock and dirty pop punk - written with a directness that pretty much means you always know what you're going to get. So the latest 'Cherokee Death Cats' EP was released on 1st November, but it comes n

In Brief: 'Back of House' - new single 'Streetfood Hero'

Oct 28, 2019
1 min

In Brief: 'Back of House' - new single 'Streetfood Hero'

Due to another 'exciting musical project' in construction we're going to keep it short and sweet this week, with just a few short band introductions whilst somehow skipping the entrée's, appetizers and desserts and heading straight to the main course. Swedish punk rock band 'Back of House' write entertaining and 'easily listening punk', which probably isn't a thing but by which I mean the tunes are distinguishable and you could almost get away with streaming it through the ho

Sunday Non Nordic Indie: Introducing...The Nature Centre with new video and Album campaign launch!

Sep 1, 2019
2 min

Sunday Non Nordic Indie: Introducing...The Nature Centre with new video and Album campaign launch!

So Nordic Music Review is back from a Summer break, and the good news is that we are definitely back for good after a bumpy few months. This week we have a musical feast of album reviews, brand new singles and a fabulous interview lined up, but it's Sunday so we get to write about one of our favourite Non Nordic bands, and today we're delighted to introduce The Nature Centre. These guys are from Birmingham, UK and they write an entertaining blend of music that can't entirely

'Death by Horse' - new single 'Dear Jim' (from album 'Reality Hits Hard')

Mar 25, 2019
2 min

'Death by Horse' - new single 'Dear Jim' (from album 'Reality Hits Hard')

So here's a song that will wake you up on a Monday morning, and maybe even inspire you to think about yourself in a different way to yesterday. Sweden's 'Death by Horse' are yet band another we've regrettably never featured in NMR, but we'll correct their omission from our pages now, with a simply blistering post punk single which I've been playing pretty much all week. UK readers may not have come across 'Death by Horse' before, but they're a band who've made a pretty good

NMR Album / EP Round-Up (volume 1)!

Jan 16, 2019
3 min

NMR Album / EP Round-Up (volume 1)!

So welcome to a new (probably bi-weekly) feature for 2019, where we briefly feature any Albums / EP's we haven't had chance to write a full review about. I guess how many releases we feature will vary week by week / month by month...: This week, inevitably, features a few releases from 2018: 'Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs' - 'Sterner Stuff' (album) We featured Finnish musician Joonas Holmén sometime last year with a release as part of his 'Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs

'It's For Us' with track 'Stay'

Dec 24, 2018
1 min

'It's For Us' with track 'Stay'

It's never too late to introduce a band we haven't written about before, and given that I think we'll be hearing a bit more about 'It's For Us' in 2019, it's good to sneak in a quick write up before the year ends. So the 4 piece Indie Pop Punk band are from Stockholm, and they released an album 'Come With Me' earlier in 2017, which I listened to yesterday and is well worth taking a listen to. However 'Stay' is the first single from a new album, which we're expecting in 2019.

'Snowed In' - 'Fun is Overrated' EP

Apr 18, 2018
3 min

'Snowed In' - 'Fun is Overrated' EP

Of course the one question that no sensible or reputable music magazine / blog will ever try and pose is 'Who Are the Greatest Band Ever', because that one question will result in such a huge flurry of opinions and debates that it is like to create a huge dispute before the obvious conclusion is reached that it was impossible to answer in the first place. But of course we're neither a sensible or a reputable music blog, and therefore the answer to the question is quite obvio

Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS - 'Jazzbelle 1984 / 1988'

Feb 6, 2018
2 min

Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS - 'Jazzbelle 1984 / 1988'

I probably need to start off with a bit of a confession and an apology when it comes to 'Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS' because we've never actually featured them in Nordic Music Review, despite first coming across them in the very early weeks of the website. They are, after all, a band that you can't quite forget the name of, and I have considered writing about them a number of times, but for one reason or another I've never quite got to them. Thankfully the