
Elise Sløgedal (Norway) – Little Things (single/future debut album track)
Reading time: 2 minutesElise Sløgedal. The name made me think of a downhill skier for some reason. I’ll have to ration my viewing of the Winter Olympics. Angry

Reading time: 2 minutesElise Sløgedal. The name made me think of a downhill skier for some reason. I’ll have to ration my viewing of the Winter Olympics. Angry

Reading time: 2 minutesIf someone asked me which of the five Nordic countries is the ‘rockiest’ (musically not financially!) right now I’d probably have to say Denmark. Here

Reading time: 2 minutesIt isn’t often that you can say genuinely that a song is vocally led, while at the same time acknowledging the contribution of the musicianship.

Reading time: 2 minutesAs it happens I’m reading, for the second time, the Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason’s creepy Second World War crime novel The Shadow District. It deals

Reading time: 2 minutesBack from holiday and I’m finally getting my head around the Danish language. Of course, ‘Ekstranummer’ would be ‘extra number’ in English or just plain

Reading time: 3 minutesTaking some time out, so a couple of quick reviews to tide you over until later. Ask Carol (Norway) – Wind in my hair (single)

Reading time: < 1 minuteThe Stockholm synth pop pioneers Red Cell return with the usual non-stop banger that we’ve come to expect from them but this time with a