
Marte Eberson (Norway) – Lights from the Ocean (album)
Reading time: 8 minutesIt was only last week that we featured a Norwegian artist, Bellefolie, who has a predilection for writing about alienation, isolation, existential dilemmas and the

Reading time: 8 minutesIt was only last week that we featured a Norwegian artist, Bellefolie, who has a predilection for writing about alienation, isolation, existential dilemmas and the

Reading time: 2 minutesI’m out of my comfort zone even attempting to review a jazz album or even a single track but I decided to have a go

Reading time: 2 minutesPitchfork, Rolling Stone, eat your heart out. Only in NMC do you get reviews of songs in Greenlandic. We encounter numerous difficult languages here at

Reading time: 2 minutesGenerally speaking I find Finnish music to be pretty deep; what you’d expect from a country dubbed as the ‘happiest in the world’ but in

Reading time: 2 minutesI thought all the Swedes were on vacation right now but Hazlett clearly isn’t as he launches this classy song ‘Shiver’ on an unsuspecting public.

Reading time: 2 minutesIt is that odd mélange of beauty and sadness that she tries to – and succeeds in – purveying here.

Reading time: 2 minutesWho was it that sang ‘Marry me’? It was St Vincent wasn’t it, in her formative artistic years before she became obsessed with fuzzy guitar