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NAYAH (Denmark) – Lifeline (single/future album track)
David Bentley
26 September 2025
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We all need a ‘Lifeline’ from time to time when we’re ...
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Discrete Circuitry (Sweden) – Ibiza 25 (single)
David Bentley
26 September 2025
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Discrete Circuitry is Aaron Meagher, who doesn’t sound Swedish and who isn’t. ...
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David Bentley
25 September 2025
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Hello folks, listen up. NMC has a new reviewer, Dominic J ...
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Louie Blue (Finland) – Alone in my World (sample track from the album Blood & Bones)
David Bentley
23 September 2025
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Louie Blue is Alec Moborg is a singer, writer and musician from ...
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Cisser Maehl (Denmark) – Familiens muligheder (title/sample track from the album)
David Bentley
22 September 2025
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It was in February 2023 the last time that Cisser Mæhl put ...
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Kristi Brud (Norway) – TENK OM DE VENTER PÅ OSS (single/future album track)
David Bentley
21 September 2025
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Kristi Brud. Sounds like a North American politician. Or a South African ...
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Sophie-Lou (Denmark) – How to not expect too much (single/future EP track)
David Bentley
19 September 2025
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Sophie-Lou (Sofie Emilie Maintz Thorsen) has been here once before, in June, ...
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Flora Smith (Sweden) – Angels are crying (single/future album track)
David Bentley
18 September 2025
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Flora Smith is gearing up towards the release of her debut ...
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Tone of Voice Orchestra (Denmark) – Tourist at God’s Mercy (single/future album track)
David Bentley
18 September 2025
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Yes, I suppose many of them are right now, especially in Venice ...
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Spotless Souls (Finland) – Rosemary (single + video)
David Bentley
15 September 2025
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The four-piece ‘art rock band’ from Helsinki, Spotless Souls, seem to have ...
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Juncker (Denmark) – Buzzwords (sample track from the album Fremmed for det meste)
David Bentley
14 September 2025
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Unashamedly I selected the sole English language track, ‘Buzzwords’, from (Christian) Juncker’s ...
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The Mary Onettes (Sweden) – Without this body (single/future album track)
David Bentley
13 September 2025
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Marionettes? Am I on the right track or barking up the wrong ...
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LIVE! – AURI (Finland) – Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (debut international gig) 12th September
David Bentley
13 September 2025
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So, only 14 years after they first formed, AURI played their first ...
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Karoline Hausted (Denmark) – Tak for dét (single/future album track)
David Bentley
11 September 2025
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Occasionally I take a punt on a translation, despite my ignorance of ...
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TOWN PORTAL (Denmark) – Crushed under something gentle (single/future album track)
David Bentley
10 September 2025
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New as they are to NMC, when I streamed TOWN PORTAL’s latest ...
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FearTheBear (Sweden) – Evil Walks Amongst Us (to the Fallen Ones)(sample track from the album The Northerner)
David Bentley
8 September 2025
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FearTheBear (FTB) is Björn Holm; he’s been with us once before, back ...
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Astrid Swan (Finland) – Special Ones (sample track from the re-released album Poverina)
David Bentley
7 September 2025
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Earlier this year we had a special video feature on Finland’s Astrid ...
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Soffía (Iceland) – Dreamcatcher (single/likely future album track)
David Bentley
6 September 2025
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We seem to be going through an Icelandic season just now with ...
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Live! Aadal (Norway) – The Carlton Club, Manchester, 04 September
David Bentley
5 September 2025
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It comes to something when a band like the Leeds-based quintet Wandering ...
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INKI (Iceland) – Islander (single/future album track)
David Bentley
3 September 2025
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It is quite a while now since INKI (Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir) put in ...
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