We’ve featured Kalandra frequently on this site over the last 10 years, and their incredible debut album ‘ The Line ’ was pretty much ..read more

We started back with Bellefolie yesterday, and they’d fit pretty well on the same bill as fellow Norwegians I Was A King, although of ..read more

It's been a while, but I guess I should get on with writing about some new music before the aliens land and start eating our puppies and ..read more

My favourite ‘new’ band on the newly updated Nordic Music Review Indie Playlist is Danish outfit Swash, courtesy of their newish track ‘The Hole’. But of course they’re not new at all, they’ve been around for years and I’ve clearly just missed them due to my normal hapless inefficiency. Anyway it’s good timing to belatedly discover them, because the lovely guys at Motelvoid have just done this interview with them, where we discover that new EP ‘Bees’ is their 1st non completely DIY release courtesy of Christian Ankerstjerne who mixed and mastered the EP, and where we also discover their love ..read more

Sadly Swedish indie four piece Girl Scout don’t have any new releases to feature (we’re promised some very soon), but for those of us in the UK we have a double helping of good news, thanks to not just one, but two imminent UK tours - the second supporting the always brilliant Canadian band Alvvays. For those that haven’t come across them before, they’ve only been around a couple of years, but have made a great impression with their always tuneful indie guitar sound, ever since debut single ‘Do You Remember Sally Moore’ in 2022, which then featured on debut EP ‘Real Life Human Garbage’ - the ..read more

It's been a busy week for Swedish musician Martin Månsson Sjöstrand. He's spent the last few days, by all accounts, hanging around the artists entrance to the Malmö Arena, trying to complete his collection of autographs from every single Eurovision entrant, whilst simultaneously surfing the web trying to get tickets for the newly announced Cardiacs gigs this October. Yet he's still had time to release a new single, curiously entitled 'We Are Mere Inhabitants of Someone's Mind'. Regular readers will remember Martin from a number of features, notably the quite brilliant&nbs ..read more

Where shall I start? A blistering single from an Australian band who offer an interesting mix of ‘colour and chaos’? Sounds good to me. They’re called Fan Girl, not to be mixed up of course with our Swedish friends Girl Scout (heading to the UK soon) or Norwegian indie band Mall Girl, and they’ve just released new single ‘the last one’. The Naarm / Melbourne based quartet have been around for a few years now, releasing an album (‘Elephant Room’) and a steady stream of singles, which includes the likes of the excellent ‘falling’ released last August, and more recently the high energy ‘stupids ..read more

I've been unavoidably absent for most of March, so I'm just going to throw some of my favourite tracks out there from the last few weeks and try and get going again. Slightly unhelpfully I know nothing about Oliver Hohlbrigger other than he's a multi-instrumentalist from Norway, and on his recent track 'Velveteen' he joins together with his pal Pål Jackman, who I unadvisedly googled to reveal lots of online pictures of Hugh Jackman playing golf with pals. But he's from Norway too and is a film director and musician. 'Velveteen' is a really cool track, with Hohlbrugger's vocals dominating, i ..read more

To be honest I was quite overwhelmed looking at the range of releases around the world this week, and normally I'd have probably been tempted to head in the direction of a 12 minute post rock track, but a lovely song entitled Pictures in the Sand' from Canadian project Wide Arches won me over, there's a charming simplicity to it and I think the arrangements add an interesting dimension to the song too. It also led me to their album 'Farewell to the Lovely Things' which was released late last year. The project was created by Toronto musician Jacob Gorzhaltsan, originally during lockdown "as a ..read more

Kindsight are another band we've featured regularly since their debut in 2020 and I found myself reading up earlier what I said about them at the time, describing an almost 'childlike exuberance' in their music. I also curiously suggested their music was so 'bang on centre in the Indie Pop genre' that maybe the 'Indietracks or Indiefjord festival would care to sign them up for 2021". Sadly the Indietracks festival ceased to exist shortly after I wrote this comment (quite possibly because I wrote it), whilst we can't expect anything more from the lovely people at Indiefjord, who took on our re ..read more