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Stella Explorer (Sweden) – Club Atlantis (single/track from forthcoming EP + video)
Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve been tracking Stella Explorer since I saw her perform at a showcase festival three years ago. Her debut EP, ‘Dorkay House’, which is the …
Introducing -Nicolay Løvvold (Norway) – Latika (single)
Reading time: 3 minutes I took a punt on this one, a speculative approach by the artist via the website, and I’m glad I did. It’s different for sure, …
Christian Balvig (Denmark) – Where All is (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes You know, there’s ‘ambient’ electronic music and then there’s ‘ambient’. Like there’s ‘the older man’ that some of the young ladies prefer and then there’s …
Tim Damerau (Sweden) – Lovebirds (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes We like to mix things up here at NMC and after a few quite serious, heavy duty songs in quick succession it’s time to lighten …
Myrkvi (Iceland) – Self-Pity (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 3 minutes Regular readers may remember that Myrkvi is an item now, the actual Myrkvi (Magnús Thorlacius) having reunited with Yngvi Holm, with whom he/they was/were VIO, …
Outer Limit Lotus (Norway) – Let the night ride you home ft. Signe Emmeluth (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes Outer Limit Lotus is a new band to me. They are Oslo-based and formed in 2015 when three of the members from noise rock cult …
Introducing ‘Read All About It’ – public relations for musicians from the Nordic countries
Reading time: < 1 minutes David Bentley, founder of Nordic Music Central and a writer for six other UK-based music publications since 2014, has initiated ‘Read All About It‘, a …
Summer Fry (Denmark) – If I don’t drown first (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes Once upon a time there was a Danish singer-songwriter called Gurli Octavia (Højbjerg Eriksen…or something like that). She wrote many heartfelt ballads and the odd …
Birds are Better (Norway) – Super Highway (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal) was here last October with the single ‘Marigold’ and with which he managed to astonish everyone when he revealed that …
Live review: Vök (Iceland) @ The Deaf Institute Manchester 13th March 2023
Reading time: 4 minutes I’d had little connection with Vök prior to this show. Somehow they’d travelled beneath the radar, like the trolls and elves that inhabit the lava …
