Reading time: 3 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …
Reading time: 2 minutes One of things that endears me to this job, even when its 8:30 pm and it’s still 30 degrees here in the ‘study’, is finding …
Reading time: 2 minutes Ready for today’s Swedish lesson? Here we go. Dungen’s second single from their album ‘En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog’ (‘One is Too …
Reading time: 2 minutes It’s taken Knife Girl (Lili Aslo – perhaps it should be ASBO?) quite a while to fashion a debut full length album – she’s been …
Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries. Today’s selection was incontrovertible, following the …
Reading time: 3 minutes Here’s another interesting one from Iceland, but what else do you expect from the land of the Huldufólk? The relationship between musicians and other artists …
Reading time: 4 minutes On the surface and by her standards Lydmor (say ‘Leeth-myur,’ it means ‘Mother of Sound’) has been quiet since the release of her fourth album …
Reading time: < 1 minute The Anglo-Swedish Joe Carnwath is back and this time he isn’t busking in a railway underpass as he was during his last video (May); he’s …
Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …
Reading time: 2 minutes Sometimes, no matter how good a song is, it can be further enhanced by a high quality video and while I’m no aesthete or culture …
Reading time: 2 minutes They are known as the ‘mature boy band’ and the ‘not-so-boy-band’ while they opt for ‘alt-pop’. Boncyan have released a cover of Pálmi Gunnarsson’s ‘Þorparinn’ …
Reading time: < 1 minute Anja Björk is a songwriter and singer from Umeå, which is sufficiently far north in Sweden that I get vertigo just thinking about it. I …
Reading time: 2 minutes Swedish electro pop duo Red Cell return with their first new music since their 2016 album ‘Endings and Beginning’. ‘Only Night’ is the first single …
Reading time: 2 minutes I intended to write about a recent Sasha Siem single tonight but then I chanced on the fact that the Gothenburg duo (ex trio) Wildhart …
Reading time: 2 minutes As I often say it’s strange how things have a way of coming around. I was listening to Rilo Kiley’s brilliant ‘Portions for foxes’ on …
Reading time: 2 minutes It’s a couple of years since I last wrote about Jacob Bellens, at the start of the pandemic. The song then was called ‘Summer Sadness’ …
Reading time: 2 minutes An unusual but highly entertaining contribution to what is a thin time for music production in the Nordics just now as most of the population …
