
Tuva Halse Quintet (Norway) – Longyear (single/future album track)
Reading time: 3 minutesIt takes a special sort of talent to write an instrumental piece about the most remote consistently inhabited place on Earth and to tell a

Reading time: 3 minutesIt takes a special sort of talent to write an instrumental piece about the most remote consistently inhabited place on Earth and to tell a

Reading time: 3 minutesWith a mass of new releases again on 22nd August we’re reintroducing the shorter, sharp review format. It’s not the best way to go about

Reading time: 1 minuteIt certainly is, and in many ways. Ever since the first time I heard Bellefolie I’ve held the opinion that they possess a quality that

Reading time: 2 minutesTinyhawk & Bizzarro had a good run in NMC in 2022-3 with three singles reviewed but we hadn’t heard much from them more recently and

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s come to something when you have to translate the title, never mind the lyrics. I’ve been dreading this day but I knew it would

Reading time: 2 minutesThere’s quite a lot to unpack here, especially after a marathon session I just spent on the first album review for ages. Fleeting Temples is

Reading time: 9 minutesAuri has just released its third album, four years after the previous one at the height of the pandemic and 14 years after coming together