
Weekend Intermission – Cardinals (Ireland) – Masquerade (debut album)
Reading time: 3 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: 3 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: 2 minutesThere’s dystopian and then there’s DYSTOPIAN. Just about everything Swedish industrial post-punkers The Below writes and records can be safely lodged in the second category.

Reading time: < 1 minuteI’m not a swimmer and I stay as far away as possible from water but Siri Neel’s take on it is quite different. She says

Reading time: 2 minutesCame across this one (for which unfortunately we only have time for the title track tonight) while researching another artist on the Swedish Lamour label

Reading time: 2 minutesThere are numerous reasons I selected this track. Firstly it brings together two artists we’ve featured previously but not often enough given their status, namely

Reading time: 2 minutesBlur were happy to content themselves with ‘Parklife’ but Martin Inghardt takes his observations several stages further with ‘Cock life’, which is the literal translation

Reading time: 2 minutesWe’ve had some unusual artist backgrounds recently; mainly academics moonlighting as musicians (pretty well, I should add) but never in my wildest dreams did I