
Ólöf Arnalds (Iceland) – Spira (album)
Reading time: 2 minutesÓlöf Arnalds’ return – 11 years after her sumptuous last record ‘Palme’ – is a most welcome if slightly minimalist comeback. Gone are the extravagant

Reading time: 2 minutesÓlöf Arnalds’ return – 11 years after her sumptuous last record ‘Palme’ – is a most welcome if slightly minimalist comeback. Gone are the extravagant

Reading time: 2 minutesWe receive quite a high number of submissions directly from artists and some of them make clear that they are doing everything related to their

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.