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Lights of Skadi (Sweden) – Book of Dead (Orchestral version) (single/future EP track)
David Bentley
31 October 2024
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2
minutes
Halloween. A good time to be studying the ‘Book of Dead’ methinks. ...
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Olivia Aliotti (Sweden) – Delayed Teenage Angst (debut single)
David Bentley
29 October 2024
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2
minutes
I’ll be honest, when I read ‘Swedish Idol’ in the press release ...
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Marble Raft (Sweden) – Rites of Passage (single/future album track)
David Bentley
28 October 2024
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2
minutes
“Exploration pop from the tundra of the Stockholm archipelago” is the unusual ...
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Crying Cojones (Sweden) – Broken Hearts (debut single/future album track)
David Bentley
27 October 2024
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2
minutes
Technically a ‘Swedish American’ duo but it’s Sunday so we’ll put the ...
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LJUD & BILD (Sweden) – Under Vattnet (single)
David Bentley
26 October 2024
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2
minutes
Frankly you are faced with a stark choice when you receive a ...
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The Brotherhood of Sonic Love (Denmark) – Wet Lips (single)
David Bentley
25 October 2024
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2
minutes
A return visit from The Brotherhood of Sonic Love, whose ‘Golden Spells’ ...
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Thinking about a career switch
David Bentley
25 October 2024
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< 1
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After 20 years in the same job it’s time for some ...
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Highasakite (Norway) – Pornography (single) (featuring Emilie Nicolas)
David Bentley
25 October 2024
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Reading time:
3
minutes
I was wondering only the other day what had happened to Highasakite. ...
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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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< 1
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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
minutes
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
minutes
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
minutes
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
minutes
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
minutes
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
minutes
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
minutes
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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Reading time:
3
minutes
I decided, on the hoof, to reintroduce the ‘Pot Pourri’ section of ...
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