
Leading Edge (Sweden) – High as a Kite (title track from EP)
Reading time: 2 minutesI have to admit that, plowing through the many submissions we receive each week, it was the EP title that caught my attention tonight. “And

Reading time: 2 minutesI have to admit that, plowing through the many submissions we receive each week, it was the EP title that caught my attention tonight. “And

Reading time: < 1 minuteIt is always good to hear new material from Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal), an erudite and thoughtful type who wouldn’t know what wallpaper music

Reading time: < 1 minuteThe Uppsala-based Almost DEAD MEN are still hanging on, defying the flatline for as long as they can and still churning out classic 70s Swedish

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s hard to imagine any musical artist wishing to leave Iceland and what is probably the most intense and comprehensive scene per capita to be

Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s so long ago that I last crossed paths with Gaeya that I’ve only written about her once in Nordic Music Central, in December 2021

Reading time: 2 minutesThe funereal music that opens this single, ‘Smile on my lips’ by Finland’s I know her is sufficiently daunting to have you wondering just where

Reading time: 2 minutesI almost binned this one, assuming he was French or Belgian or something. Ironically it was the ‘Jan’ in Jan Le’Brandt’s name that saved the