Andy Wors
Giant Giant - 'Giant Giant'
I get far too over excited when I get emails from 'small bands in Finland' asking us to take a listen to their new album. This is all the...
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NMR Indie Playlist
Andy Wors
Feb 29, 20161 min read
Novotonik - 'I Don't Mind' new single
We featured Finnish band Novotonik when they released their ‘Come What May’ EP last summer. The Tampere based band have a fresh...
Andy Wors
Feb 26, 20161 min read
Von Hertzen Brothers - UK Tour inc the Brooklyn Bowl London!
Given that we like our music that is influenced by a variety of genres, and can’t easily be categorized, it’s a bit of a crime that we’ve...
Andy Wors
Feb 24, 20162 min read
Swaying Wires - 'I Left a House Burning'
As we reach the end of February we’re now deluged with new 2016 releases to listen to, and a real contrast in styles too, as hopefully...
Andy Wors
Feb 22, 20162 min read
Matti Jasu and the Loose Train - 'Gone to the Dogs'
We introduced you to the world of Matti Jasu and the Loose Train, when they released a couple of pre-album singles before Christmas. We...
Andy Wors
Feb 15, 20161 min read
23:23 - 'Faraway Island' video
We don’t normally highlight individual videos that have been released, but this one is so good that we wanted to give it a special...
Andy Wors
Dec 24, 20151 min read
Albums We Missed (7) - Puunhalaaja: Puunhalaaja
Sometimes it does take a while for music to hit home, and when I first listened to Finnish artist ‘Puunhalaaja’ (and the album...
Andy Wors
Dec 24, 20151 min read
Albums We Missed (5) - 'Nightwish': Endless Forms Most Beautiful
We don’t cover much within the ‘metal’ genre, which is simply a reflection of our complete lack of expertise in this area (which will no...
Andy Wors
Dec 24, 20151 min read
Albums We Missed (2) - Satan's Fingers: 'Enduring Love'
The next in our 'In Short' series is the Finnish outfit Satan’s Fingers, who’s name frequently appears online and leaves me increasingly...
Andy Wors
Dec 18, 20151 min read
Matti Jasu and the Loose Train - 'What Goes On' Single and Video
Its Friday night, so after a week of album reviews and some hefty pre-Christmas releases, here’s a really quick easy listening single to...
Andy Wors
Dec 15, 20153 min read
Juha Kujanpää - 'Kultasiipi' ('Goldwing')
A couple of people have kindly said to us lately that they like Nordic Music Review because in addition to the more traditional indie...
Andy Wors
Nov 29, 20152 min read
Introducing..... 'Whale and the Village'
Another band we meant to introduce to you a while back was ‘Whale and the Village’, a folk pop band from Turku, a city home to a few...
Andy Wors
Nov 15, 20152 min read
Laura Moisio - 'Ikuinen Valo'
Yesterday we reviewed ‘Lockerbie’ and their album ‘Hafari, and we’re sticking with native languages for a few words about a recent album...
Andy Wors
Nov 13, 20152 min read
'Catself' - New Video
After our coverage of all things Post Rock, Folk Rock and 60s influenced Slacker Pop, we’re going to introduce you to 2 new artists (well...
Andy Wors
Aug 28, 20151 min read
New Band - 'Sonic Visions'
We havent featured many new alternative Finnish bands recently at Nordic Music Review, so we're delighted to have stumbled across 'Sonic...
Andy Wors
Aug 26, 20151 min read
Sakia - new single!
At the end of May we wrote a Nordic Music Review feature about Sakia, a Finnish band who'd been together some 10 years, but had only...
Andy Wors
Jul 17, 20152 min read
Wends - 'When we Sleep'
Photo Copyright by Niina Pietarinen Somehow I need to get us out of the cycle of backlogs and always having great music we havent quite...
Andy Wors
Jul 2, 20151 min read
Novotonik - 'Come What May' EP
After featuring the brilliant debut from ‘The Stillwalkers’, we thought we’d stay in Finland to give a quick mention to a brand new band...
Andy Wors
Jun 26, 20153 min read
The Stillwalkers - 'The Stillwalkers'
I got myself completely bogged down on trying to write something coherent and constructive about the new Of Monsters and Men album, a...
Andy Wors
Jun 11, 20152 min read
23:23 - Softest Wave, Drifter, Torero
I've been hoping to write a bit more about 23:23 for a while, but wasn’t sure I'd quite get around to it given that every week we're...
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