Lydmor (Denmark): Capacity (album)
If anyone in the music business merits the adjective ‘enigmatic’ it is Lydmor. Her previous album ranged over her inscrutable affairs and...
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Andy Wors
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Volcano Victims (Iceland) - ‘Volcano Victims’ (album)
Back to album releases, and I have a fair few to cover off. I’ve written about Icelandic songwriter Gaui before, his Volcano Victims...
Andy Wors
Feb 25, 20212 min read
Sturle Dagsland (Norway) - ‘Sturle Dagsland’ (album)
We try to write about a wide range of musical styles and genres, And whilst I don’t like categorising artists really, I think we all do...
David Bentley
Jan 28, 20218 min read
Gurli Octavia (Denmark) - 'I Could Be Blossoming Instead' (Debut album)
By necessity this must be a long review. It is impossible to do justice to this lady and her first album in a couple of hundred words. It...
Andy Wors
Jan 25, 20212 min read
Axel Flóvent (Iceland) - ‘You Stay by the Sea’ (album)
We’ve written about Axel Flóvent numerous times over recent years, but as Dan pointed out in his Artists to Watch in 2021 feature, he’s...
Dan Cromb
Jan 22, 20212 min read
DOPHA (Denmark) - 'The Game' (album)
Citing Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift as inspiration, it’s no surprise that this debut album from Danish artist DOPHA (released today,...
Andy Wors
Jan 13, 20213 min read
Jon-Olov Woxlin (Sweden) - The Great Unknown (album)
My New Years resolution is to review more Nordic album releases, even if I have to keep them relatively brief, so I can hardly ignore a...
Andy Wors
Jan 5, 20213 min read
The Cosmic Rabbit Holes - ‘The World is Drugs’ (album)
I’m still thinking about the stuff I missed in 2020, although the reality is that the wealth of music out there is so vast I could still...
Andy Wors
Jan 2, 20213 min read
Sea Lion - ‘I Heard there’s Music on the Town’ (album)
Writing about my Singles and Albums of the Year, and reading lots of other lists on different websites, is actually a pretty sobering...
Andy Wors
Dec 16, 20201 min read
Faratuben - ‘Sira Kura’ (vinyl release)
We don’t normally cover re-releases, but wanted to give a quick mention to Faratuben, a project which brings together musicians from...
David Bentley
Dec 11, 20206 min read
Das Body – 'Peregrine' (album)
So who is the bird of prey, then? I take it they are referring to lofty, gangly-limbed singer and occasional bassist Ellie Linden, whose...
Andy Wors
Dec 10, 20202 min read
Mayflower Madame - Ludwig Meidner (single / video from album ‘Prepared For A Nightmare’)
I suspect that Mayflower Madame are probably named after the infamous New York escort agency owner Sydney Biddle Barrows rather than the...
Andy Wors
Nov 26, 20202 min read
Urtidsdjur - ‘Vandringssång’ (single from self titled album)
We have a massive range of music to cover over the next 24 hours, appropriate given it’s our 6th birthday, and we hope to feature as many...
Andy Wors
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Henriette Sennenvaldt - ‘Very Fantastic’ (from album ‘Something Wonderful’)
It’s Thursday night and if the world has already got a little too much for you this week and you want to hideaway from everything and...
David Bentley
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly – Alone Together (track from album of the same name)
Sorry folks, I’m well behind with this one, over two months, but I felt obliged to include it because there are few people keeping...
Andy Wors
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Kenichi & The Sun - ‘A Tale Unfolds’ (from new album ‘White Fire’)
I wrote about the Hey Elbow album last week, a complex, twisting album that was certainly genre defying, but also played around with...
Andy Wors
Nov 13, 20203 min read
She’s A Sailor - ‘Do You Want Us To Play’ (album)
We’re heading towards our 6th birthday, drowning slightly under the weight of new releases, but appropriately there’s a nice collection...
Andy Wors
Nov 5, 20203 min read
Red Barnett - ‘Astronauts’ (album)
Iceland is spoiling us this week, and I don’t just mean in their new selection of Chicken Satay Noodles. Of course the variety of music...
Andy Wors
Nov 3, 20204 min read
Hringfari - Hringfari (album)
Anything happening in the world today? Nope? Good, so here’s something a little bit different, and certainly a complete contrast with the...
David Bentley
Oct 30, 20202 min read
Oscar – Soul Experience: Oh Oh (track from debut album, out now)
Sweden’s Oscar – Soul Experience is a band put together by young Oscar Ögren specifically for the purpose of playing live and that has...
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