
Spotless Souls (Finland) – Rosemary (single + video)
Reading time: 2 minutesThe four-piece ‘art rock band’ from Helsinki, Spotless Souls, seem to have a thing about oddball romances. Last time out, on ‘In the heat’ they
Reading time: 2 minutesThe four-piece ‘art rock band’ from Helsinki, Spotless Souls, seem to have a thing about oddball romances. Last time out, on ‘In the heat’ they
Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s a little disconcerting when you receive a message from new band and then find they’re so new that their followers could hold meeting in
Reading time: 2 minutesOh boy, here’s a blast from the past. Anne Lise Frøkedal and her band Familien was one of the first Nordic artists I ever reviewed
Reading time: 2 minutesI really enjoy introspective, self-deprecatory stuff like this and have done since I first heard Ida Wenøe’s marvellous ‘The Self-Pity Song’. drea, out of Bergen,
Reading time: 3 minutesAlterne (Denmark) – Finland (sample track from the album Alterne) Two songs from Alterne’s debut album have already featured in NMC, both of them thoughtful
Reading time: 2 minutesWeekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a
Reading time: 5 minutesStinako (Stina Koistinen) knows a thing or two about medical matters. A few years ago, together with her compatriot Astrid Swan, she released a poignant