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Hazlett (Sweden) – I’m not ready to go (focus track from the EP Goodbye to the valley low (Side B)
David Bentley
23 October 2024
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2
minutes
Hazlett does a lot of thinking about life, about if and how ...
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Uno Soul (Denmark) – Fading Suns (single/future album track)
David Bentley
22 October 2024
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What would Oasis sound like if they were from Billund rather ...
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Peppermint B (Denmark) – Melody Maker (album title track)
David Bentley
21 October 2024
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2
minutes
Older hands reading this might remember Melody Maker, a British weekly paper-printed ...
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The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique (Norway) – Indico (single/track from forthcoming album Transit)
David Bentley
20 October 2024
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2
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Well it qualifies for the strangest band name of 2024, for sure. ...
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Last Plane Out (Sweden) – All Fool’s Day (single)
David Bentley
19 October 2024
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2
minutes
My admin is so out of kilter at the moment that I’d ...
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Weekend Intermission feature: 10-year anniversary of my first music review…how things have changed since then
David Bentley
19 October 2024
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5
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I wrote my first formal music review on 22nd October 2014. (Before ...
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Ida Wenøe (Denmark) – Walking Mantra (single from previously released album)
David Bentley
18 October 2024
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2
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I used to have a personal mantra about walking. A couple of ...
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Video of the week: When Saints go Machine (Denmark) – Chainsaw (single)
David Bentley
17 October 2024
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2
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I’d overlooked this one, which is a few weeks old now but ...
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MATD (Finland) feat. Johanna (Koskiniemi) – Read my lips (single)
David Bentley
16 October 2024
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2
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MATD turns up in NMC about once a year. The first time ...
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Songs for the end of the day from Digvalley (Norway) and Fallulah (Denmark)
David Bentley
15 October 2024
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3
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Digvalley (Norway) – Only You (single) Digvalley (Eirik Bøen Gravdal) hasn’t passed ...
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Kristin Sevaldsen (Norway) – 5pm (sample track from the album The Sonic Experience – Iceland)
David Bentley
14 October 2024
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2
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Here is an unusual one. I’ve encountered numerous people who make music ...
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Pot Pourri – 13th October – songs from Rick Kingo (Denmark) and Nordic Sad (Sweden)
David Bentley
13 October 2024
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3
minutes
I decided, on the hoof, to reintroduce the ‘Pot Pourri’ section of ...
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Michael Aadal (Norway) – 1938 (sample track from the album ‘Stories’)
David Bentley
13 October 2024
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2
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Michael Aadal has visited us several times previously, within his jazz-fusion band ...
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Sykur (Iceland) – Pláneta Y (single)
David Bentley
12 October 2024
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2
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I’d almost forgotten about Sykur. Unless I’m mistaken, the last time they ...
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Live show review! Pom Poko (Norway) at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 10th October
David Bentley
11 October 2024
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4
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Is it six years ago that I first saw Pom Poko? Where ...
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Me and Munich (Denmark) – Rumination (single/future album track)
David Bentley
10 October 2024
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2
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If someone asked me which of the five Nordic countries is the ...
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Mette Juul (Denmark) – On Dragon Wings (single/future album track)
David Bentley
8 October 2024
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2
minutes
It isn’t often that you can say genuinely that a song is ...
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Amalie Skriver (Denmark) – Uncertainty (single) + video
David Bentley
7 October 2024
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2
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As it happens I’m reading, for the second time, the Icelandic writer ...
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Slagger Lund (Denmark) – Ekstranummer (single/possible future album track+ video)
David Bentley
6 October 2024
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2
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Back from holiday and I’m finally getting my head around the Danish ...
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Songs for the End of the Day – Holiday edition 28 September – featuring Ask Carol (Norway) and Millie (Denmark)
David Bentley
28 September 2024
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3
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Taking some time out, so a couple of quick reviews to tide ...
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