Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
Norway’s Andreyun is one of Toothfairy’s freshest talents, and now he’s exploring a new hopefully melancholic late night anthem. In his latest single he’s teamed up with Icelandic vocalist Hildur to release High For This, a sexy, bouncy, atmospheric song that fellow Norwegian producer WNDR mixed to the ultimate delight. Find your sweatheart, push play, let’s sway!
We’re enjoying the latest EP from Danish trio (bass, drums, vocals!) Nelson Can, and think you will, too. Nelson Can Website | Facebook | SoundCloud
Norwegian cosmic-pop quartet Strange Hellos is gearing up the release of their debut album “Chromatic”, which is set to drop October 27 via the brilliant Brilliance Records, with the reverently chemical first single “Monumental”. Strange Hellos Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Today Norwegian label Brilliance Records gifted us with Calyx, the latest single from alt-pop band Living, and it’s a psychedelic journey of groovy samples and technicolor soundwaves. Joining the already released singles Glory and Path as tracks on their debut album “Absolutely” set for release sometime in the first quarter of 2018, the Norwegian/Brazilian 4-piece is a collaboration between multi-instrumentalists […]
Norwegian indie cuties Iffy Orbit have debuted! Their LP “Slow Times” is glorious and makes everything is right with the world. It’s 10 songs strong with a great indie-pop energy that is a treat to listen to. Here are a few of the tracks we like the most and why: The album’s title track Slow […]
Today Norwegian-Kiwi pop duo Anna of the North dropped Money, and it’s a clever sucker punch dressed in electronic beats. “Money goes out to all those fake ass people,” said the band. “Users who use those around them; for money, for status, for fame. S/O to fake friends and gold-diggers.” We suggest sharing Money with the fakies in your life […]
When Finnish DJ and popular radio host Rony Rex‘s debut EP “F*cked It Up” climbed to #2 on the iTunes Dance Albums chart, it inspired the Finnish label Youth Control to hand-pick electronic producers and fellow Finns Gas Gas, Roisto, KASPERG and Smok to remix the EP. The result is the fun, all-Finnish “F*cked It Up Remix” EP. […]
Danish indie electro-pop duo Bode and Brixen, aka Bodebrixen, have returned after five long years of quiet with a stellar and infectious 4th album called “Ruins”. Tracks Change It Back (disco-vibed with Spanish guitar), Feel Love (trop-pop with catchy harmonies and strings), and Town Hall Square (modern lo-fi space-pop) make “Ruins” a captivating, satisfying party music LP, which we’re pretty sure you […]
Nobody like you, you / Nobody likes you, you / Guess this winter cold got me feeling low / Wish you knew that nobody likes you, you Following her first-ever single Skintight, a stomping pop banger released late last year, Stockholm-based songwriter Elsa is back with the heartbreak anthem Nobody Likes You, a ScandiPop-tinted R&B tune with an edge. […]
John Moose is more than “just” a band from Sweden — he is the collective alter-ego of the 5-piece folk outfit, the main character in the band’s musically narrated stories about escaping the ambivalence between civilization and nature. Following their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album in 2015, songs from John Moose’s latest EP “O” are […]