#psychedlic

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'Phogg' - 'Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh' (album)

Andy Wors

Dec 3, 2019
3 min

'Phogg' - 'Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh' (album)

We hopefully should be featuring an Album a Day this week, and after the melodic strains of 'Agacy' yesterday, today we feature Swedish rock band 'Phogg', who have a psychedelic and even slightly progressive basis to their music. There a 4 piece band from 'Stockholm' who debuted with an EP called 'Zun, Stein & Graaf' in 2017, followed by an album 'Slices' last year, and their new release curiously entitled 'Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh' was released back in September. Since the r

'Pinemoon' - 'Strange Times' (from album 'Miracle')

Andy Wors

Nov 25, 2019
2 min

'Pinemoon' - 'Strange Times' (from album 'Miracle')

We'll start the week with a shoegaze inspired single and album which has been released just in the last couple of weeks. 'Pinemoon' are from Denmark, and their album 'Miracle' has, to an extent, a nostalgic sound which reminds me of the bands that so influenced me in my teenage years - and thus probably showing my age in the process. They're a duo consisting of Steven Steward and Christoffer Schultz, who've performed in a number of other Danish indie bands, and interesting th

'Astral Brain' - 'Five Thousand Miles' (single)

Andy Wors

Nov 11, 2019
1 min

'Astral Brain' - 'Five Thousand Miles' (single)

I like to think we have a great way to start the week, and it's a band that made quite an impression when we introduced them earlier in the year, and are now back with a new single. 'Astral Brain' are from Sweden, and regular readers may remember that they are a band based around duo Einar Ekström (previously of Le Futur Pompiste), who founded the band, but with Siri Af Burén (Testbild!, Band In Box, Vit Päls) adding vocals and lyrics. Previous release 'From Above' remains a

Introducing...'Pink Chameleons' with track 'Melting Face'

Andy Wors

Sep 5, 2019
1 min

Introducing...'Pink Chameleons' with track 'Melting Face'

We've already introduced one new Finnish band today ('Spring Teeth') and we might have time for some new 'Stillwalkers' later, but we've been really looking forward to introducing 'Pink Chameleons', because they're fronted by none other than Paltsa-Kai Salama, the lead vocalist from one of our favourite bands 'Black Lizard' - we've also written about his solo material previously too. In this new project, an interesting fusion of blues, garage and country he's joined with fell

'Belle Sonder' - 'Melancholy Love' (single) + Manchester Psych appearance

Andy Wors

Jul 9, 2019
1 min

'Belle Sonder' - 'Melancholy Love' (single) + Manchester Psych appearance

Just one short introduction today, and it's for an Anglo-Nordic duo we really should have come across previously, given they've been around for a few years and were formed in Liverpool - I'm going to make an educated guess at LIPA, see previous features on 'I See Rivers', Oyvind Weiseth, Kalandra, Nils Martin and more. 'Belle Sonder' have released a few tracks since 2014 including a 4 track self-titled EP released last year, and it's a heady mix of swirling electronica, indie

Album of the Week: 'Melby' - 'None of this makes me worry'

Andy Wors

Apr 24, 2019
2 min

Album of the Week: 'Melby' - 'None of this makes me worry'

We just have so many really good album releases from the last 2 weeks to cover, so we'll try and keep our reviews succinct, and we'll start with a release which is already a real favourite even though it's only been out for a short while. 'Melby' are from Sweden and their release through Rama Lama Records is a nonchalant journey into a psychedelic Indie Pop world where everything is easy on the ear, melodically appealing and always varied and interesting. They're a 4 piece ba

'Gentle Ivanhoe Death Skulls' - 'Cedric' (single)

Andy Wors

Apr 12, 2019
1 min

'Gentle Ivanhoe Death Skulls' - 'Cedric' (single)

It's Friday, the sun is (almost) shining, and it seems like a good day for a bumper selection of new Nordic music, covering every style and genre we can manage. We'll start off with the Swedish band 'Gentle Ivanhoe Death Skulls' that we wrote about late in 2017 (was it really that long ago...?), and write music in a psychedelic shoegaze style, where the appeal to me is simply the great sound that the guitars, drums and assorted instruments make. Straight form the start of th

Andy Wors

Feb 25, 2019
2 min

'Orsak:Oslo' - 'Ghost Gear' (EP)

Just one more quick feature tonight, and this time it's a new EP release from a Swedish (I think with some Norwegian connections too) band that we also featured last year. 'Orsak:Oslo' are a psychedelic stoner instrumental rock band and they're fairly prolific in their output of music, with a steady stream of releases over the past few years, including the 'Tipping Point' EP that we wrote about last time. Now they've released a new EP entitled 'Ghost Gear', there's 3 tracks o

'Electric Crayon Set' - new track 'Moonlit Graveyard'

Andy Wors

Nov 15, 2018
1 min

'Electric Crayon Set' - new track 'Moonlit Graveyard'

It's probably true to say that we've featured a couple more 'commercial' style releases than normal in previous days, so we'll make no apologies for heading slightly leftfield towards music that you won't find on your national Radio playlists. 'Electric Crayon Set' are from Finland, and if we think we've done well to last into our 5th year, well these guys have reached 20 years of music making, and early in 2019 will release a new album (their 3rd) to celebrate two decades of

'River String Lizards'- new single and video 'Endless Maze' (from the album 'Riv

Andy Wors

Nov 15, 2018
2 min

'River String Lizards'- new single and video 'Endless Maze' (from the album 'Riv

After our feature on 'Electric Crayon Set' we'll stick with Finnish psychedelic influenced bands, but another who take their music in a slightly different direction. 'River String Lizards' are a 5 piece band who somehow mix spaced out guitar led psychedelia with a bluegrass inspired banjo, and the net effect is both fascinating and simply great fun to listen to. So 'River String Lizards' have been around for a couple of years now, and they're quite an active band live, which

'Cinnamon Space Machine' - 'Captain's Log' (album)

Andy Wors

Oct 10, 2018
3 min

'Cinnamon Space Machine' - 'Captain's Log' (album)

Music arrives to Nordic Music Review in all kind of ways - emails, the excellent Submit Hub, twitter messages, by scouring other (far more reliable...) music websites, Bandcamp, Nordic gig and festival listings, the list is simply endless. How Swedish 4 piece band 'Cinnamon Space Machine' ended up downloaded on our new album playlist on Spotify (many months back) is more confusing, they just simply appeared one day, and maybe that's appropriate for a psychedelic rock band who

Andy Wors

Sep 21, 2018
3 min

'Rosa Jules' - 'Valparaiso' EP

I guess if there's one thing that we've prided ourselves in over the last few years it is that we've tried to search out those artists that do something slightly differently, that don't conform to a musical stereotype, or that blend musical influences to create something that sounds quite unusual. So we're delighted to restart proceedings with an introduction to Finnish songwriter 'Rosa Jules, who's debut EP 'Valparaiso' was released just yesterday. Rosa Jules is probably be

'Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs' & 'Alec Danger' - double single 'Righteou

Andy Wors

Aug 31, 2018
2 min

'Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs' & 'Alec Danger' - double single 'Righteou

We've made a slight impression on our backlog, so we'll drop in now a double single which is actually released today 31st August, and it's 2 tracks from 2 Finnish artists whom we're delighted to feature for the 1st time. Alec Danger & Joonas Holmen are 2 independent musicians from Turku (home to NMR 'Album of the Year winners 'The Stillwalkers') and Helsinki respectively and similar to the Sub Pop bands of 'my era' they've combined in a joint project to release 2 psychedelic

'The Presolar Sands' - new single 'Our Loss / Your Reward'

Andy Wors

Apr 25, 2018
2 min

'The Presolar Sands' - new single 'Our Loss / Your Reward'

We have 2 features today on 2 bands we should have really featured before now, but for one reason or another, have never quite got around to them. The first are 'The Presolar Sands' from Sweden, and they're a name that have kept appearing on gig and psych festival listings over the last few years - I think I first spotted the name when i saw they were playing at the Copenhagen Psych festival a couple of years back, an excellent event for spotting some of the most interesting

Andy Wors

Mar 6, 2018
2 min

Filthy Kitsch - One (EP)

We wrote about Filthy Kitsch last year when he released an introductory track, and we're delighted to see that since then the rest of the world has caught on and that he's been getting some pretty fantastic write ups from across the music blogsphere. So, albeit about a month late, we're pleased to be able to write a few words on his EP, entitled 'One' and containing 3 delectable tracks. For those of you who don't remember, Filthy Kitsch is the project for Swedish multi-instr

Andy Wors

Jan 30, 2018
2 min

Orsak:Oslo - 'Tipping Point' EP

Apologies for the slightly enforced break, we'll try to make it up this week with another wide range of releases, starting with another one which slipped in sometime last year, but which is definitely worth us belatedly covering. Orsak:Oslo are an Oslo / Gothenburg based stoner / blues based instrumental band who have released a steady stream of EP's since they first appeared back in 2014 with 'Torggata Sway'. All their EP's are actually worth checking out, but their music h

Black Light White Light - new single 'Teenage Dream'

Andy Wors

Jan 22, 2018
1 min

Black Light White Light - new single 'Teenage Dream'

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

Andy Wors

Jan 18, 2018
3 min

Peace on Earth - 'Silent Killer'

We've covered a fair range of styles in the last week, some Swedish post metal as well as some pretty easy listening Power Pop, so it's good to be able to mix that up by covering a band who today have released an album full of continuous rock noise. 'Peace on Earth' are from Gothenburg and they are a trio of musicians, which is somewhat surprising given they collectively produce enough of a racket for at least a 5 piece band. Their debut album 'Silent Killer' is described by