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Vinyl Floor (Denmark) – Funhouse Mirror (title track from recently released album)
Reading time: 2 minutes Vinyl Floor (Thomas Charlie Pedersen and Daniel Pedersen) were here as recently as May of this year and the track under review at that time …
Josefin Winther (Norway) – Silent Storm (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes On most of the occasions I’ve written about Bergen’s Josefin Winther she has sung in Norwegian, as indeed she did on the last single, ‘Fritt …
The Victim (Denmark) – Ghost House (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes The Victim –sounds like a 1960s US TV drama, doesn’t it? Like ‘The Invaders’ (“only David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here – now …
Memoria (Sweden) – Girl (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 3 minutes They call her the dark wave queen and her musical throne is a post-punk, Goth-like tradition which she shares with a select few other female …
Feature – Lydmor’s (Denmark) Five-Course Musical Feast
Reading time: 2 minutes Resuming our feature series, the ‘Five Course Musical Feast’ in which an artist selects five songs and tells us in a few words why they …
Weekend Intermission: Introducing Shayri (Ukraine) – ВЖЕ ДОСИТЬ (Enough is Enough) (single)
Reading time: 3 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …
Neon Ion (Norway) – Cold War (track from album Mood Cosmic)
Reading time: 2 minutes It was around about June of last year that I came across Neon Ion (Natalie Sandtorv) and as chance would have it, it was this …
he is tall (Denmark) – New York (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes I don’t know if Troels Sørensen is tall, let alone if he is the Tallest Man on Earth, but as he’s chosen to write a …
The Oceans (Denmark) – Love you forever; hate you more than ever (sample track from debut album ‘Love Above All’
Reading time: 2 minutes Having to choose one track from The Oceans’ debut album, and two of the songs on it having passed through NMC this year so far …
Nordic Music Central Spotify Playlist #9 – August 2022
Reading time: 2 minutes The tempus has fugited again and we’ve gone almost two whole months and into another since the last Playlist. Hence I’ve extended it slightly from …
The New Weavers (Denmark) – Don’t make a scene (sample track from album)
Reading time: 3 minutes I’m always attracted to bands with ‘Weavers’ in their name. In the northwest of England we have the Houghton Weavers, who rose to fame with …
Red Cell (Sweden) – Good Morning, Good Light (single)
Reading time: < 1 minutes Last time out for Red Cell it was ‘Only Night.’ This time it’s morning and there’s a pattern developing here from the Swedish electro-pop duo. …
Chivvy (Sweden) – Kiddo (single)
Reading time: < 1 minutes This is the first I’ve heard from Chivvy for a while and during the in-betweens they lost one of the members they originally had when …
Theresa Rex (Denmark) – Touch (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes Here’s an unusual one and in more ways than one. Theresa Rex is no dinosaur. She used to busk as a jazz singer but has …
Summer Fry (Denmark) – We do it for love (single)
Reading time: 3 minutes A couple of years ago I was waxing lyrical about the debut album from a Danish singer-songwriter who I won’t name just yet, for reasons …
Sofia Aarvik (Norway) – Safe (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes Stay safe has become the watchword in the last couple of years but I’m casting caution to the winds in reviewing this single from Sofia …
From the Archives – ‘An interview in 20 Questions’ – Sweden’s Stella Explorer
Reading time: 5 minutes With a lot of releases this coming Friday but not much to write about just now I thought it would be good to republish an …
Ask Carol (Norway) AC 1: Control you (album)
Reading time: 5 minutes It’s rare that NMC gets to review an album from a band that has been heavily hyped prior to their debut album release but then …
Maylen Rusti (Norway) – Romeo & Julie (Single)
Reading time: 2 minutes Oh T, T, wherefore art thou, T? T’s gone walkabout in Verona. At least Shakespeare’s masterpiece hasn’t been reduced to ‘Ron and Julie’, like lovers’ …
Stella Explorer (Sweden) – Dorkay House (EP)
Reading time: 3 minutes Having caught the last 20 minutes or so of Stella Explorer’s set at the By:Larm festival in Oslo in February 2020, the last gig I …
Katharina Nuttall (Sweden) – Inspired by John Keats (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 3 minutes It’s not often these days that I get to write about a ‘Lancashire Lass’ but that is just what Katharina Nuttall is, despite her Swedish …
Melby (Sweden) – Music should feel (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: < 1 minutes Melby is a psych-pop four piece from Stockholm whom I can claim to have almost seen playing live at a festival a few years ago …
Preview – Stinako (Finland) – Pelasta mut (Save Me) (Single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 3 minutes Good music lovers everywhere were shocked earlier this year to hear that sophisticated alt-pop story weavers Color Dolor were calling it a day. By way …
Ola Kvaløy (Norway) – The City (ft. Morten Abel) (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes You might recall Ola Kvaløy; he was here back in May with ‘Fair Weather,’ another single/track from his album ‘Any Other Life,’ which will be …
Frum (Faroe Islands) – Run (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes A second appearance in NMC for Faroese Frum (Jenný Augustudóttir Kragesteen) after her rather excellent ‘Tumbled’ last October. Now resident in Iceland I believe (the …
Video of the week: Marc Facchini (Denmark) – Han hedder Boyan (His name is Boyan) (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes He a soundsa Italiano, no? In reality he’s as Danish as the Vikings, Lego, Sarah Lund and bacon with the name stamped on it. Now …
Marte Eberson (Norway) – Bad Day (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes I’m always a little nervous when an artist I respect decides to go off in a fresh direction and the talented Marte Eberson, who is …
Rikke Normann (Norway) – The art of being home alone (EP)
Reading time: 2 minutes Back in May, when we ran the rule over a track from this EP that was released as the first single, we were invited to …
Daniella Binyamin (Sweden) – Toothpaste Kisses (single)
Reading time: < 1 minutes NMC welcomes onboard James, creator of the excellent BOOT—MUSIC, and based also in the Northwest of England, who will be contributing reviews of Nordic artists …
Bo Milli (Norway) – How It is (single/track from forthcoming EP)
Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve often wondered how it is and Bo Milli (Emilie Østebø) tries her best to explain it in simple terms in this, the second single …
Weekend Intermission: Shakespears Sister (UK/US) – Hormonally Yours 30th Anniversary edition
Reading time: 3 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …
Lasse Matthiessen (Denmark) – Ocean (single)
Reading time: < 1 minutes Is it really eight months since Lasse Matthiessen was last in these pages? Tempus fugit, as they used to say in the location of the …
The Forever Now (Denmark) – Lover’s City (ft. Trine Lyngvig) (single)
Reading time: 2 minutes One of things that endears me to this job, even when its 8:30 pm and it’s still 30 degrees here in the ‘study’, is finding …
Dungen (Sweden) – Om Det Finns Något Som Du Vill Fråga Mig (single/track from forthcoming album)
Reading time: 2 minutes Ready for today’s Swedish lesson? Here we go. Dungen’s second single from their album ‘En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog’ (‘One is Too …
Knife Girl (Finland) – The Good Times Are Coming Your Way (single/track from forthcoming debut album)
Reading time: 2 minutes It’s taken Knife Girl (Lili Aslo – perhaps it should be ASBO?) quite a while to fashion a debut full length album – she’s been …
Weekend Intermission – Judith Durham – The Carnival isn’t Over
Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries. Today’s selection was incontrovertible, following the …
Inki (Iceland) – Love of my life, bad guy (track from the album Brotabrot [Violation])
Reading time: 3 minutes Here’s another interesting one from Iceland, but what else do you expect from the land of the Huldufólk? The relationship between musicians and other artists …
Lydmor (Denmark) – LSD Heart (single from forthcoming album Nimue)
Reading time: 4 minutes On the surface and by her standards Lydmor (say ‘Leeth-myur,’ it means ‘Mother of Sound’) has been quiet since the release of her fourth album …
Joe Carnwath (Sweden) – Someone to talk to (single)
Reading time: < 1 minutes The Anglo-Swedish Joe Carnwath is back and this time he isn’t busking in a railway underpass as he was during his last video (May); he’s …
Weekend Intermission – Lee Fitzjames (New Zealand) – Hold In (Single)
Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or band not from the Nordic countries, just to mix things up a …
