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Pre-Christmas Wrap: A quick round up of three recent releases – Helena Montgomery, Kaspar and Mélusine

Reading time: 4 minutesSanta might be on his way but so are the releases. They ...
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Last Plane Out (Sweden) – All Fool’s Day (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesMy 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

Reading time: 5 minutesI 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesI 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesI’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)

Reading time: 2 minutesMATD 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)

Reading time: 3 minutesDigvalley (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)

Reading time: 2 minutesHere 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)

Reading time: 3 minutesI 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’)

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

Reading time: 2 minutesI’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

Reading time: 4 minutesIs it six years ago that I first saw Pom Poko? Where ...
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Me and Munich (Denmark) – Rumination (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesIf 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesIt isn’t often that you can say genuinely that a song is ...
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Amalie Skriver (Denmark) – Uncertainty (single) + video

Reading time: 2 minutesAs 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)

Reading time: 2 minutesBack 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)

Reading time: 3 minutesTaking some time out, so a couple of quick reviews to tide ...
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Red Cell (Sweden) – Hollywood Darkness (single)

Reading time: < 1 minuteThe Stockholm synth pop pioneers Red Cell return with the usual ...
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Amilost (Norway) – Tiny War (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutesAmilost – I suppose that’s Am I lost? Or is that too ...
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Video of the week – Rhys (Sweden) – Heathrow (single/future EP track)

Reading time: 2 minutesThis one should be right up my street, having been employed in ...
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GLIMTVIS (Denmark) – Is Anybody Missing Me’ (focus track from the album The Nashville Confessions)

Reading time: 2 minutesAs much as I’m trying to focus on new to NMC artists ...
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