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Weekend Intermission: Melisa Aller (Argentina) – DESTRUKTION (EP)
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Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist ...
30 January 2026
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Birds are Better (Norway) – Hymn for the hope and the sorrow (single)
David Bentley
30 January 2026
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First time in a long time for Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal), ...
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Backengrillen (Sweden) – Backengrillen (album)
Dominic Stevenson
29 January 2026
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Strap yourselves in, Backengrillen are taking you on a death-defying, establishment-baiting, utterly ...
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Clara Strauch (Sweden) – The Carousel (single/future album track)
David Bentley
28 January 2026
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I’ll be straight with you dear reader, I’d never heard of Clara ...
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Rexen (Denmark) – The Chauffeur (album)
Dominic Stevenson
27 January 2026
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Danish alternative troubadour Rexen’s new album ‘The Chauffeur’ startles from the outset. ...
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Nicholas & Sebastian (Norway) – Credo/Butterfly Blue (dual single release)
David Bentley
26 January 2026
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I hope Nicholas & Sebastian won’t be offended if I say that ...
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Amanda Bergman (Sweden) – embraced for a second as we die (album)
Dominic Stevenson
26 January 2026
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Amanda Bergman’s latest album, ‘embraced for a second as we die’, is ...
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Orange Oak (Sweden) – Garden Green Eyes (debut single/future EP track)
David Bentley
25 January 2026
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There is something about a husky female voice. You know, the type ...
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Andie Loui (Norway) – Someone else (single/future track from forthcoming debut album)
David Bentley
24 January 2026
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Andie Loui. That name got me thinking. Firstly of Jona Lewie, the ...
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Allan Simonsen (Denmark) – Fire Slemme Drenge (Four Bad Boys) (single) +video
David Bentley
22 January 2026
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Only a few days ago I posted on NMC socials a plea ...
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Video of the Week (Premiere): Les Dunes (Norway) – Koen’s Teme (album track)
David Bentley
22 January 2026
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I still don’t know a great deal about Les Dunes even though ...
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José González (Sweden) – Against the Dying of the Light (single/future album track) + video
David Bentley
20 January 2026
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We occasionally stray from our mantra of giving max headroom to new ...
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RIVER (Sweden) – Infected Mind (single) + video
David Bentley
19 January 2026
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I wasn’t sure about RIVER’s previous single, ‘I am cancer’. Partly because ...
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Rasmus Weirup (Denmark) – Bar Voyage (single/future EP track)
David Bentley
18 January 2026
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3
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We do get the weird and wonderful sent to us to listen ...
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YouYou (Iceland) ft. Biggi Nielsen – Towns (single)
David Bentley
17 January 2026
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It’s Saturday night and all is well with the world. Not. Donald ...
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LEHNBERG (Sweden) – Omgivelsen (single/possible future album track)
David Bentley
15 January 2026
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I first encountered (David) LEHNBERG nine years ago this summer and never ...
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Ólöf Arnalds (Iceland) – Spira (album)
Dominic Stevenson
15 January 2026
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Ólöf Arnalds’ return – 11 years after her sumptuous last record ‘Palme’ ...
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RABO (Norway) – Things (sample track from the debut EP Half Decade Addiction)
David Bentley
14 January 2026
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I’m not sure exactly what the ‘Half Decade Addiction’ is that RABO ...
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The Grenadines (Denmark) – Hooked on you (single)
David Bentley
12 January 2026
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2
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The Grenadines paid us a visit last summer with a macho number, ...
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Malu Pierini (Denmark) – Pourquoi (single/future album track) + video
David Bentley
11 January 2026
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With Brigitte Bardot so much in the news recently this quite sultry ...
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Weekend Intermission – SML (USA): How you been (album)
Dominic Stevenson
10 January 2026
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Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist ...
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