
Boy Omega (Sweden) – Rocket (single)
Reading time: 2 minutesBoy Omega (Martin Hasselgren) was in these pages not that long ago (March) with a fascinating, imaginative song, ‘Hollow’, which he associated with the 1990s

Reading time: 2 minutesBoy Omega (Martin Hasselgren) was in these pages not that long ago (March) with a fascinating, imaginative song, ‘Hollow’, which he associated with the 1990s

Reading time: 2 minutesI often wondered what it would be like if I was a muso and wrote a song praising my home town of Oldham. Not that

Reading time: 2 minutesI’m out of my comfort zone even attempting to review a jazz album or even a single track but I decided to have a go

Reading time: 2 minutesPitchfork, Rolling Stone, eat your heart out. Only in NMC do you get reviews of songs in Greenlandic. We encounter numerous difficult languages here at

Reading time: 2 minutesGenerally speaking I find Finnish music to be pretty deep; what you’d expect from a country dubbed as the ‘happiest in the world’ but in

Reading time: 2 minutesI thought all the Swedes were on vacation right now but Hazlett clearly isn’t as he launches this classy song ‘Shiver’ on an unsuspecting public.

Reading time: 2 minutesIt is that odd mélange of beauty and sadness that she tries to – and succeeds in – purveying here.