The Best in Nordic Music, Music Festival and Travel!
Pastis (FI) – “Around Here”
Finnish band Pastis’ “Around Here” (from the album’s debut album Circles) is more than a fun song about having fun. In the song’s three-and-a-half minutes, Pastis’ frontman paints pictures of fun nights out on the town, but the journey toward feeling mentally assured enough to have fun in the first place is just as important a […]
IRAH (DK) – “Unity of Gods”
Stine Grøn and Adi Zukanović, best known as the Danish duo IRAH, describe the creation of their recent single “Unity of Gods” (from their upcoming debut album, Diamond Grid, out May 24 on ever-amazing Danish label Tambourhinoceros) as “a playful process.” Whimsy is indeed common across the track’s five minutes, but only in its pianos; otherwise, the […]
Softcore Untd. (NO) – “Gi Meg Tid”
One look at the band name Softcore Untd. and the artwork for its recent single “Gi Meg Tid” might get listeners thinking, “What in the world is Softcore Untd.?” A better question, upon listening to “Gi Meg Tid” is, “What in the world isn’t Softcore Untd.?” On the Norwegian band’s most recent single, the quartet blends together every […]
Festival Preview: Distortion 2019 Tickets and Travel Packages
In just over two months, one of Denmark’s most exciting festivals will return for its 21st edition. Distortion is a five-day club music festival that takes place across Copenhagen, where the best Danish names in club music mix with leading dance, R&B, pop, and electronic artists from all over the world. Sound like your thing? Then act now […]
Greta Svabo Bech (FO) – “All My Bones”
The last time we wrote about Greta Svebo Bech, her body was a cage. Over three years later, her body has no structure at all, at least according to her song “All My Bones.” On this bold synthpop track, which opens the Faroese musician’s recent Bones EP, she sings of a person, presumably a lover, who has […]
Prins Oblonsky (NO) – “Østerdalen”
Prins Oblonsky isn’t the first musician to convey movement with few tools, but he’s certainly one of the more interesting voices in minimal techno right now. “Østerdalen,” the third of four tracks on Oblonsky’s debut EP, Dreams on Hold (out now via Beatservice), rarely seems to have more than four or five sonic layers, but it’s hard not […]
MALMØ (DK) – “Frostbite: The Inevitable End, Part I”
The latest from Danish artist MALMØ is icy in every sense of the word. “Frostbite: The Inevitable End, Part I” is roughly the coldest title imaginable for a song; musically, the track is a wintry mix of sparse piano, flittering falsetto, mechanically clanging percussion, and arctic wanderlust; lyrically, it’s the first of a four-part series […]
FOAMMM (NO) – “Rollerblades”
Norwegian psychedelic pop group FOAMMM must be doing something right. Before the Oslo-based five-piece even began recording its self-titled debut album, which is out April 26 on Norwegian label Sheep Chase Records (home to Dark Times, Outer Limit Lotus, and more), it had already opened a tour for Ought, not to mention individual shows for […]
FUSHIA (DK) – “Transparent Girls”
FUSHIA‘s two members are twin sisters, but they don’t see each other all that often. Well, not in person, at least—Mathilde Clara Nyegaard and Nathalie Julia Nyegaard communicate over Skype these days, now that one lives in London and the other in Stockholm. Among the many things they talk about during their Skype chats is […]
SXSW Event Preview: Sounds from Norway / SXSW 2019
Norway is set to have a strong presence at the world’s busiest week for music yet again. The sixth annual Sounds From Norway SXSW showcase will take place in Austin next Thursday, March 14, at Elysium. The Norwegian label Brilliance will combine with the booking and management agency Atomic Soul, in association with Music Norway and […]