Reading time: < 1 minute Rikke Normann (Norway) – Circles (single) First appearance in NMC this year for Rikke Normann, the Queen of Living Room Shows delivered straight into peoples’ …

Reading time: 2 minutes Jonsson United (Sweden) – Hoppsan för helvete (single) Mr Google offers ‘Whoop the hell’ but I’m assured by the band that ‘Hoppsan för helvete’ translates …

Reading time: 2 minutes Red Cell (Sweden) – We will be birds tonight (single) Birds. A popular theme for song writers. Nelly Furtado, Antony & the Johnsons, and Sweden’s …

Reading time: 2 minutes Di Leva (Sweden) – Fire of Love (single/track from forthcoming album) Di Leva has spent the last six months touring his consistently sold-out David Bowie …

Reading time: 2 minutes Lush Lullaby (Denmark) – Demons (sample track from EP Waiting for the Sun) I was just in the mood for a bit of punk, having …

Reading time: 2 minutes Lowly (Denmark) – Seasons (single/track from forthcoming album) A bit of electronic dream pop for ya, tonight. I don’t often feature bands within two months …

Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission – néomí (Suriname/Netherlands) – skipping stone (single) Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from …

Reading time: 2 minutes Old Man Blues (Denmark) – Sex without love (sample track from album Ready for Fun) ‘Sex without love.’ That got your attention didn’t it? Sounds …

Reading time: 2 minutes Signe Marie Rustad (Norway) – Waiting (single/track from forthcoming album) I was confident that we’d featured Signe Marie Rustad in the past but apparently not, …

Reading time: 2 minutes Maliika (Sweden) – Say Goodbye (single) No, it isn’t say goodbye to love and there’s no guitar solo that’s probably the best ever, but it’s …

Reading time: 2 minutes I like tunes. Strong tunes. Memorable tunes. And that isn’t the reason I decided to feature this song, ‘Dopamine Detox’,which will also be on the …

Reading time: 2 minutes As readers may know by now, I don’t buy fully into the ‘climate crisis’ but if an artist/band has something new to say on the …

Reading time: 2 minutes Almost Dead Men haven’t crawled into a corner yet. No sir. I don’t know if they’re in the habit of releasing one new single each …

Reading time: 2 minutes One of my favourite songs, tastefully delivered by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and even more so by Gabriel and Paula Cole. And yes, it …

Reading time: 2 minutes Philosophical, even stoical, songs are released at all times and we were inundated with them during the pandemic lockdowns. Otherwise, a new year is a …

Reading time: 2 minutes You might remember Soffía from previously. She was Soffía Björg (and technically still is I suppose), but got a makeover somewhere on the road to …

Reading time: 2 minutes Myrkvi has been here before, last year, with the song ‘Villt fræ’ but he’s undergone a rebirth of sorts since then, becoming a duo again. …

Reading time: 2 minutes NORD, or NORD Orchestra as they are also known, paid us a visit only a couple of months ago. I described them as “serious, deep …

Reading time: 4 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 I’ll be frank about this; I wasn’t instantly attracted to this song. But things got better on subsequent hearings. To their credit Elviise offers both …

Reading time: < 1 minute I’ll tell you this. It takes some balls to release an alt-rock single on the 2022nd anniversary of Baby Jesus rocking in his manger in …

Reading time: 2 minutes Is this a case of split personality? Ljug Aldrig is ‘Roosen’, a visual artist, singer and songwriter from Stockholm. Roosen holds a Fine Art Master’s …

Reading time: 2 minutes No it isn’t Sophia Allison and she hasn’t joined forces with Millwall fans to be a football hooligan (although that would make for an interesting …

Reading time: 2 minutes My parents used to have a Bendix washing machine (more accurately a Tricity-Bendix, the latter part being the brand name) and, would you Adam and …

Reading time: 2 minutes Have we had an experimental instrumental rock group before? I can’t think of one. That’s what Tinyhawk & Bizzarro amount to. What’s more they are …

Reading time: < 1 minute Everything is in Swedish with this one folks, but I managed to figure some of it with the help of our old friend Mr Google. …

Reading time: 2 minutes Having dusted off this year’s singles review it’s back to the day job and I had a choice between this song from Tomma Intet (English: …

Reading time: 2 minutes Who was it that sang “n-n-n-n-nineteen”? Yep, Paul Hardcastle, kindly informing us that was the average age of the US General Infantryman in the Vietnam …

Reading time: 2 minutes Digvalley (Eirik Bøen Gravdal), who is out of Bergen, or pretty close by, paid us a visit earlier in the year with a collaborative effort …

Reading time: 2 minutes Felisia Westberg is a new name to me but is an artist who is well known in Sweden as a highly prominent bass player as …

Reading time: 2 minutes If you read my previous review of Memoria you will know I was a tad disappointed by ‘Girl’ and the video for it. The Swedish …

Reading time: 2 minutes Doing some research on Scarlett’s Garden I discovered they’ve previously recorded a song called ‘6 feet below’. I hope there’s no-one buried there. Saga and …

Reading time: 2 minutes Funnily enough, even before I’d read the PR that came with the email about this new song from Among Lynx, I’d made a mental connection …

Reading time: 2 minutes Output is limited presently owing to the demands of the World Cup, but I’m trying my best! Hand on heart I swear you get more …

Reading time: 2 minutes Anyone following this publication will know by now that I have a lot of time for Rikke Normann. When we ran the rule over her …