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Olivia Aliotti (Sweden) – Delayed Teenage Angst (debut single)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’ll be honest, when I read ‘Swedish Idol’ in the press release I ...
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Marble Raft (Sweden) – Rites of Passage (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes “Exploration pop from the tundra of the Stockholm archipelago” is the unusual introduction ...
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Crying Cojones (Sweden) – Broken Hearts (debut single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Technically a ‘Swedish American’ duo but it’s Sunday so we’ll put the American ...
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LJUD & BILD (Sweden) – Under Vattnet (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Frankly you are faced with a stark choice when you receive a press ...
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The Brotherhood of Sonic Love (Denmark) – Wet Lips (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes A return visit from The Brotherhood of Sonic Love, whose ‘Golden Spells’ title ...
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Thinking about a career switch

Reading time: < 1 minute After 20 years in the same job it’s time for some variety. ...
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Highasakite (Norway) – Pornography (single) (featuring Emilie Nicolas)

Reading time: 3 minutes I was wondering only the other day what had happened to Highasakite. Occupying ...
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Hazlett (Sweden) – I’m not ready to go (focus track from the EP Goodbye to the valley low (Side B)

Reading time: 2 minutes Hazlett does a lot of thinking about life, about if and how you ...
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Uno Soul (Denmark) – Fading Suns (single/future album track)

Reading time: < 1 minute What would Oasis sound like if they were from Billund rather than ...
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Peppermint B (Denmark) – Melody Maker (album title track)

Reading time: 2 minutes Older hands reading this might remember Melody Maker, a British weekly paper-printed magazine ...
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The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique (Norway) – Indico (single/track from forthcoming album Transit)

Reading time: 2 minutes Well it qualifies for the strangest band name of 2024, for sure. Not ...
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Last Plane Out (Sweden) – All Fool’s Day (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes My admin is so out of kilter at the moment that I’d completely ...
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Weekend Intermission feature: 10-year anniversary of my first music review…how things have changed since then

Reading time: 5 minutes I wrote my first formal music review on 22nd October 2014. (Before that ...
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Ida Wenøe (Denmark) – Walking Mantra (single from previously released album)

Reading time: 2 minutes I used to have a personal mantra about walking. A couple of miles ...
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Video of the week: When Saints go Machine (Denmark) – Chainsaw (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’d overlooked this one, which is a few weeks old now but it ...
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MATD (Finland) feat. Johanna (Koskiniemi) – Read my lips (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes MATD turns up in NMC about once a year. The first time was ...
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Songs for the end of the day from Digvalley (Norway) and Fallulah (Denmark)

Reading time: 3 minutes Digvalley (Norway) – Only You (single) Digvalley (Eirik Bøen Gravdal) hasn’t passed this ...
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Kristin Sevaldsen (Norway) – 5pm (sample track from the album The Sonic Experience – Iceland)

Reading time: 2 minutes Here is an unusual one. I’ve encountered numerous people who make music by ...
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Pot Pourri – 13th October – songs from Rick Kingo (Denmark) and Nordic Sad (Sweden)

Reading time: 3 minutes I decided, on the hoof, to reintroduce the ‘Pot Pourri’ section of quick ...
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Michael Aadal (Norway) – 1938 (sample track from the album ‘Stories’)

Reading time: 2 minutes Michael Aadal has visited us several times previously, within his jazz-fusion band Aadal, ...
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Sykur (Iceland) – Pláneta Y (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes I’d almost forgotten about Sykur. Unless I’m mistaken, the last time they dropped ...
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