
Flora Smith (Sweden) – Knight and Shining Armor (single)
Reading time: 2 minutesAlways good to hear from Flora Smith and her soulful voice and she’s back with a new single, ‘Knight and Shining Armor’ (I used the

Reading time: 2 minutesAlways good to hear from Flora Smith and her soulful voice and she’s back with a new single, ‘Knight and Shining Armor’ (I used the

Reading time: 3 minutesValerie Melina burst onto the NMC scene in 2024 with the single ‘Death of me’, which concerned having such a huge crush on someone that

Reading time: 2 minutesGibrish’s band member Christer Suneson summed it up nicely when he said “perhaps there have been too many Dylan versions recorded in the world”. When

Reading time: < 1 minuteIt is always good to hear new material from Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal), an erudite and thoughtful type who wouldn’t know what wallpaper music

Reading time: < 1 minuteThe Uppsala-based Almost DEAD MEN are still hanging on, defying the flatline for as long as they can and still churning out classic 70s Swedish

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s hard to imagine any musical artist wishing to leave Iceland and what is probably the most intense and comprehensive scene per capita to be

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s so long ago that I last crossed paths with Gaeya that I’ve only written about her once in Nordic Music Central, in December 2021