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Peppermint B (Denmark) – Melody Maker (album title track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Older hands reading this might remember Melody Maker, a British weekly paper-printed magazine ...
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The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique (Norway) – Indico (single/track from forthcoming album Transit)

Reading time: 2 minutes Well it qualifies for the strangest band name of 2024, for sure. Not ...
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Last Plane Out (Sweden) – All Fool’s Day (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes My admin is so out of kilter at the moment that I’d completely ...
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Weekend Intermission feature: 10-year anniversary of my first music review…how things have changed since then

Reading time: 5 minutes I wrote my first formal music review on 22nd October 2014. (Before that ...
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Ida Wenøe (Denmark) – Walking Mantra (single from previously released album)

Reading time: 2 minutes I used to have a personal mantra about walking. A couple of miles ...
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Video of the week: When Saints go Machine (Denmark) – Chainsaw (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’d overlooked this one, which is a few weeks old now but it ...
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MATD (Finland) feat. Johanna (Koskiniemi) – Read my lips (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes MATD turns up in NMC about once a year. The first time was ...
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Songs for the end of the day from Digvalley (Norway) and Fallulah (Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes Digvalley (Norway) – Only You (single) Digvalley (Eirik Bøen Gravdal) hasn’t passed this ...
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Kristin Sevaldsen (Norway) – 5pm (sample track from the album The Sonic Experience – Iceland)

Reading time: 2 minutes Here is an unusual one. I’ve encountered numerous people who make music by ...
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Pot Pourri – 13th October – songs from Rick Kingo (Denmark) and Nordic Sad (Sweden)

Reading time: 3 minutes I decided, on the hoof, to reintroduce the ‘Pot Pourri’ section of quick ...
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Michael Aadal (Norway) – 1938 (sample track from the album ‘Stories’)

Reading time: 2 minutes Michael Aadal has visited us several times previously, within his jazz-fusion band Aadal, ...
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Sykur (Iceland) – Pláneta Y (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’d almost forgotten about Sykur. Unless I’m mistaken, the last time they dropped ...
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Live show review! Pom Poko (Norway) at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 10th October

Reading time: 4 minutes Is it six years ago that I first saw Pom Poko? Where did ...
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Me and Munich (Denmark) – Rumination (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes If someone asked me which of the five Nordic countries is the ‘rockiest’ ...
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Mette Juul (Denmark) – On Dragon Wings (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes It isn’t often that you can say genuinely that a song is vocally ...
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Amalie Skriver (Denmark) – Uncertainty (single) + video

Reading time: 2 minutes As it happens I’m reading, for the second time, the Icelandic writer Arnaldur ...
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Slagger Lund (Denmark) – Ekstranummer (single/possible future album track+ video)

Reading time: 2 minutes Back from holiday and I’m finally getting my head around the Danish language. ...
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Songs for the End of the Day – Holiday edition 28 September – featuring Ask Carol (Norway) and Millie (Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes Taking some time out, so a couple of quick reviews to tide you ...
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Red Cell (Sweden) – Hollywood Darkness (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute The Stockholm synth pop pioneers Red Cell return with the usual non-stop ...
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Amilost (Norway) – Tiny War (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Amilost – I suppose that’s Am I lost? Or is that too obvious? ...
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Video of the week – Rhys (Sweden) – Heathrow (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutes This one should be right up my street, having been employed in the ...
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