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Video of the Week: Les Dunes (Norway) – Den Hopsack (single/album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesGrainy black & white videos of a semi naked woman cavorting around ...
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Last Plane Out (Sweden) – Break the Chain (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesIt was just over a year ago that we reviewed Last Plane ...
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New Kids on the Block – Lily Oktober (Sweden) – Waste (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutesAn unusual artist name, and an unusual song title. Lily Oktober sounds ...
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Real Ones (Norway) – Nusrat (lead track from the album So says all of us) + video

Reading time: 2 minutesI genuinely do not know what to make of this one, and ...
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Rural Tapes (Norway) – Lingering Souls (single/future album track) ft. Gary Olson

Reading time: 2 minutesRural Tapes (Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen) pays us a visit usually once a ...
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NAYAH (Denmark) – Lifeline (single/future album track)

Reading time: < 1 minuteWe all need a ‘Lifeline’ from time to time when we’re ...
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Discrete Circuitry (Sweden) – Ibiza 25 (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesDiscrete Circuitry is Aaron Meagher, who doesn’t sound Swedish and who isn’t. ...
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We have a new reviewer coming on board!

Reading time: < 1 minuteHello folks, listen up. NMC has a new reviewer, Dominic J ...
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Louie Blue (Finland) – Alone in my World (sample track from the album Blood & Bones)

Reading time: 2 minutesLouie Blue is Alec Moborg is a singer, writer and musician from ...
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Cisser Maehl (Denmark) – Familiens muligheder (title/sample track from the album)

Reading time: 2 minutesIt was in February 2023 the last time that Cisser Mæhl put ...
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Kristi Brud (Norway) – TENK OM DE VENTER PÅ OSS (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesKristi Brud. Sounds like a North American politician. Or a South African ...
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Sophie-Lou (Denmark) – How to not expect too much (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutesSophie-Lou (Sofie Emilie Maintz Thorsen) has been here once before, in June, ...
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Flora Smith (Sweden) – Angels are crying (single/future album track)

Reading time: < 1 minuteFlora Smith is gearing up towards the release of her debut ...
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Tone of Voice Orchestra (Denmark) – Tourist at God’s Mercy (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesYes, I suppose many of them are right now, especially in Venice ...
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Spotless Souls (Finland) – Rosemary (single + video)   

Reading time: 2 minutesThe four-piece ‘art rock band’ from Helsinki, Spotless Souls, seem to have ...
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Juncker (Denmark) – Buzzwords (sample track from the album Fremmed for det meste)

Reading time: 3 minutesUnashamedly I selected the sole English language track, ‘Buzzwords’, from (Christian) Juncker’s ...
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The Mary Onettes (Sweden) – Without this body (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesMarionettes? 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

Reading time: 7 minutesSo, 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesOccasionally 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesNew as they are to NMC, when I streamed TOWN PORTAL’s latest ...
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