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Reading time: 2 minutes Me Munich (Jan Steiniche Petersen on vocals and rhythm guitar and Michael Tagesen on lead guitar, bass and backing vocals) are deep thinkers. When they last featured in these pages, in October 2024, their subject was the human propensity for ‘Rumination’ (the song title) getting lost in your own thoughts and worries, resulting [ ] The post Me & Munich (Denmark) – Wasteland…
Reading time: 2 minutes I could have sworn that we had featured Sondre Lerche previously but on closer inspection his name cropped up in an interview with Das Body back in 2023; it seems he guested for them at a seminal gig at Parkteatret in Oslo just after the pandemic which seems to have electrified the audience even more [ ] The post Sondre Lerche (Norway) – Love is All (single/future album…
Reading time: 2 minutes A fascinating moral conundrum from Denmark’s STAUN (Line Staun Jensen) who, in her second single, recounts her restlessness, feelings and doubts when a past love suddenly reappears on the scene following a long ago divorce from which the subject is only now recovering. The question arises: Should you seek out the past or let [ ] The post STAUN (Denmark) Ud i Armslængde (At…
Reading time: 2 minutes Boy Omega (Martin Hasselgren) was in these pages not that long ago (March) with a fascinating, imaginative song, ‘Hollow’, which he associated with the 1990s David Lynch creation, the TV series Twin Peaks, while my associations were more along the lines of 1960s British TV dramas, Amy Whitehouse, Paul Oakenfold and Peter Gabriel. You can’t [ ] The post Boy Omega (Sweden) –…
Reading time: 1 minute Continuing with the releases we never got around to a month or so ago is this latest single from Remington Super 60, ‘Time to breathe’. The band was formed in 1998 by Christoffer Schou. It looks like we haven’t featured them previously (I thought we had) but we have featured another band that Christoffer Schou [ ] The post Remington Super 60 (Norway) – Time to breathe…
Reading time: 2 minutes With another week of almost zero new releases across the Nordics, which are enjoying their extended holiday period again, I took a look back at some of the emails received that we were simply unable to deal with previously this year. One of them was from Alterne, a Danish trio we featured several times a [ ] The post Alterne (Denmark) – Eivo (single) + Video appeared first…
Reading time: 3 minutes Readers might recall that for quite some time I have been championing a brand new venue in Oldham, Greater Manchester – ‘The Loom’ as a potential gigging venue for touring Nordic artists and bands. I have posted several times about it. That venue has now been open for a couple of months. It can [ ] The post Introducing a potential new gig venue in Greater Manchester for…
Reading time: 2 minutes Todd Karen have made three previous appearances in NMC and the consensus was that they are quirky, entertaining and amusing. Now they return with a new 2-track single, the lead/title one being entitled ‘The Thrift Store Spaceship’. It again features one Trick Knobs, who took part on their single ‘Work’ last year and whose [ ] The post Todd & Karen (Norway) – The Thrift…
Reading time: 2 minutes We’d somehow managed to miss this one, which was released in early June, but as it reflects a summer that will soon come to an end it is appropriate to give it a whirl now. Flowers of Ruin. Sounds like an ultra dystopian death metal band. In fact it is a duo formed in 2023 [ ] The post Flowers of Ruin (Sweden) Chérie Luv (single/possible debut album track) appeared first on…
Reading time: 2 minutes We’re a little late with this one but better late than never. Jay Matharu is English but has lived for some time in Uppsala, Sweden’s fourth largest city, to the north of Stockholm. And he isn’t the only one. We’ve reported on several British artists that are based in the University city; there appears to [ ] The post Jay Matharu (UK/Sweden) – Atrophy (sample/opening track…