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drea (Norway) – Let Go (sample track from debut EP Letters to my bitter self)

Reading time: 2 minutes I really enjoy introspective, self-deprecatory stuff like this and have done since I ...
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In conversation with Das Body (Norway)

Reading time: 11 minutes A few years ago by chance I came across a video by a ...
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Ceci Noir (Sweden) – Away (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute Well here’s a blast from the past. I reviewed Ceci Noir three ...
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Uno Soul (Denmark) – Time to share (single + video)

Reading time: 2 minutes We’ve had several posts now of Christmas songs and I suppose I should ...
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Nordic Music Central Spotify Playlist #16, October – November 2023

Reading time: 6 minutes We’ve got two month’s worth of tracks for you this time, going back ...
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Even more Christmas songs, 02 December 2023, from Birds are Better (Norway), Eva Hillered (Sweden) and GLIMTVIS (Denmark)

Reading time: 4 minutes They just keep on coming. You’d think it was Christmas. Birds are Better ...
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Pikes (Sweden) – It’s looking up (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute Whenever I see a song title like that I think of the ...
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Mattias Risberg’s Mining (Sweden) – Rubik’s Globe (sample track from album Magnitude the World)

Reading time: 3 minutes Before we get into this can I make a few observations? If any ...
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Johanna Brun (Sweden) – Bird (debut English language single/track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes So, the ‘Bird’ has flown at last, 10 years after it first made ...
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Swedish Potpourri – songs from Frances Bloom and BRAUNBEER

Reading time: 3 minutes It surprises me how many musicians in the business contact me directly. In ...
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More Christmas songs, from The Northern Belle (Norway); Northern Assembly & Kajsa Vala (Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes Part two of NMC’s Christmas countdown. First up is The Northern Belle from ...
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Uma E (Sweden) – The sun always shines on TV (single/ A-ha cover)

Reading time: 2 minutes We don’t often do covers unless there’s a very good reason and this ...
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Orvokki (Finland) – Marie Antoinette (track from debut album Kasvotusten)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve often held that some of the best experimental electronic music emerges out ...
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Nicolay Løvvold (Norway) – Hunter (sample track from the album Grey)

Reading time: 2 minutes I well remember my introduction to Nicolay Løvvold earlier this year and his ...
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Hollow Ship (Sweden) – Utsuro Bune (Hollow Boat) (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Hollow Ship return two years after the release of their album ‘Future Remains’, ...
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Potpourri 21st November featuring songs from Knife Girl and MATD (both Finland)

Reading time: 3 minutes Knife Girl (Finland) – Beautiful (track from the album Cum) There is no ...
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Red Cell (Sweden) – All that She wants (sample track from Covered in Red, an EP of Swedish covers)

Reading time: 2 minutes Red Cell has paid us a visit three times this year but only ...
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Christmas songs so far – Vincent Ryder (Denmark) and Marte Eberson (Norway)

Reading time: 4 minutes I was going to leave Christmas songs until December but I’ve got a ...
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Mildfire (Norway/Germany) – How to be an Astronaut EP

Reading time: 2 minutes With Musk’s Space-X have finally gotten off the ground without abruptly falling back ...
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Potpourri 17th November – songs from Arctic Assembly (Greenland and other countries) and Motylki (Sweden)

Reading time: 3 minutes Arctic Assembly (Greenland et al) – Isumaat (single/track from forthcoming album) Here’s an ...
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Potpourri 16th November 2023 – songs from FearTheBear (Sweden) and Lauge Heebøll (Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes FearTheBear (Sweden) – Summer Rain (single/track from forthcoming album) FearTheBear (FTB) is Björn ...
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