
Iris Caltwait (Norway) – these are hard times (say the words) (single)
Reading time: 2 minutesThey certainly are, Iris. She has bucked the trend by lengthening her artist name from the previous, simple first name into Iris Caltwait and I’m
Reading time: 2 minutesThey certainly are, Iris. She has bucked the trend by lengthening her artist name from the previous, simple first name into Iris Caltwait and I’m
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.
Reading time: 2 minutesIt is that odd mélange of beauty and sadness that she tries to – and succeeds in – purveying here.