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The Mary Onettes (Sweden) – Without this body (single/future album track)
David Bentley
13 September 2025
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2
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Marionettes? Am I on the right track or barking up the wrong ...
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LIVE! – AURI (Finland) – Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (debut international gig) 12th September
David Bentley
13 September 2025
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7
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So, only 14 years after they first formed, AURI played their first ...
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Karoline Hausted (Denmark) – Tak for dét (single/future album track)
David Bentley
11 September 2025
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2
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Occasionally I take a punt on a translation, despite my ignorance of ...
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TOWN PORTAL (Denmark) – Crushed under something gentle (single/future album track)
David Bentley
10 September 2025
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2
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New as they are to NMC, when I streamed TOWN PORTAL’s latest ...
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FearTheBear (Sweden) – Evil Walks Amongst Us (to the Fallen Ones)(sample track from the album The Northerner)
David Bentley
8 September 2025
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2
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FearTheBear (FTB) is Björn Holm; he’s been with us once before, back ...
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Astrid Swan (Finland) – Special Ones (sample track from the re-released album Poverina)
David Bentley
7 September 2025
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2
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Earlier this year we had a special video feature on Finland’s Astrid ...
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Soffía (Iceland) – Dreamcatcher (single/likely future album track)
David Bentley
6 September 2025
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2
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We seem to be going through an Icelandic season just now with ...
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Live! Aadal (Norway) – The Carlton Club, Manchester, 04 September
David Bentley
5 September 2025
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3
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It comes to something when a band like the Leeds-based quintet Wandering ...
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INKI (Iceland) – Islander (single/future album track)
David Bentley
3 September 2025
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3
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It is quite a while now since INKI (Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir) put in ...
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Ilaheva (Sweden) – Under the Sky (title track from debut EP)
David Bentley
2 September 2025
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2
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I could write a book about some of the artists and bands ...
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Who killed Bambi (Denmark) (with Astrid Engberg) – Lilies (single/future album track)
David Bentley
1 September 2025
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2
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Who killed Bambi have made three appearances in NMC but only as ...
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Di Leva (Sweden) – Kärleken är kung (single/future album track) + video
David Bentley
31 August 2025
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Ahead of his forthcoming album ‘När änglar dör’ (‘When Angels Die’), ...
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Orbits (Norway) – Blood Red Sky (title track from debut album)
David Bentley
30 August 2025
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2
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Hand on heart I don’t think you’ll find as much variety on ...
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The Other End (Norway) Peeking over the top (single/possible future album track)
David Bentley
28 August 2025
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2
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Sorting through newly released tracks we’d missed during the last few weeks ...
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Songs for the end of the day from Johan Hoffman (Sweden) and Victoria Akua (Denmark)
David Bentley
27 August 2025
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3
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A couple of end of the day songs from artists that have ...
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Emil Friis (Denmark) – For Goodbyes (single/future album track, +video)
David Bentley
26 August 2025
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2
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Danish composer Emil Friis has just released ‘For Goodbyes’, the final single ...
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22nd August releases Part 3 from MesaVerde (Norway) and Anna von Hausswolff (Sweden)
David Bentley
25 August 2025
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3
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Wrapping up the 22nd August releases for now and in short form, ...
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22nd August releases Part 2 – from Automatism and Isobel (both Sweden)
David Bentley
24 August 2025
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3
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Continuing our attempt to chip away at the barrage of releases on ...
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22nd August 2025 singles releases, Part 1 – Maliika (Sweden) and Longing Louisa (Finland)
David Bentley
23 August 2025
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3
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With a mass of new releases again on 22nd August we’re reintroducing ...
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Bellefolie (Norway) – It’s Time (single/future album track)
David Bentley
23 August 2025
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1
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It certainly is, and in many ways. Ever since the first time ...
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