Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
You should be able to tell where this video is leading. The starry-eyed lyrics that Swedish popster Tove Styrke sings throughout is a clear indication: this is a clip about love. Does that make any less powerful and lovely? Hardly. This amazing short film, directed by Joanna Nordahl, is just another feather in an already […]
What feeling is Dagny talking about? Doesn’t take long to figure out when watching this video. She’s talking about L-U-V, friends. That giddy, punch drunk look on her face says it all. Can you feel it too? We sure can. And we can feel our absolute adoration of this brilliant Norwegian talent. We want nothing […]
We’ve posted in the past about the greatness of Finnish avant garde ensemble Kemialliset Ystävät, but their genius goes beyond the work they do as a collective. It’s the music that their individual members make outside the fold that continues spreading the gospel of weird, wonderful sounds. That’s as clear as ever on the forthcoming release […]
Whenever Norwegian electro pop goddess Jenny Hval brings new music into the world, our whole world stops. All morning, that’s been the case here at Nordic Spotlight HQ as we’ve had this new track on repeat. “Spells” is the first release from Hval’s forthcoming EP The Long Sleep (out via Sacred Bones on 5/25) and it’s […]
Out today is Bulldog, a mini-album from Danish songwriter and producer Soleima. And what does that mean, precisely? That means impromptu dance parties over here at Nordic Spotlight HQ. The new EP is, according to the artist, the most experimental work she’s ever done. That’s pretty evident with this track. But there’s also enough of a […]
Icelandic recording collective Bedroom Community released a dove into the sky today with this new tune from electropop trio aYia. What we know about this group isn’t much. On Facebook, they call their music “a nicely polished rock in your teacup.” On the surface, a silly statement but the more we chewed on it, the […]
We hope you enjoyed our most recent podcast episode highlighting the Nordic bands playing SXSW this year. Of course, we couldn’t fit every one of them in the mix. And more’s the pity when it comes to this young noise rock band from Gothenberg. Rome Is Not A Town has been tearing up the Swedish […]
Swedish legend Karin Dreijer of The Knife fame suddenly dropped a new album called “Plunge” under the name of her solo moniker Fever Ray this morning, much to the delight of her numerous worldwide fans. It was only a few days ago that Dreijer gifted us the music video for the Twin Peaks-y To The […]
Earballs of the world listen up, because the charming, eccentric and provocative Danish trio WhoMadeWho have finally released a new single called I Don’t Know! Sung in Jeppe Kjellberg’s beautiful signature falsetto, with singer/bassist Tomas Høffding (who also performs as Bon Homme solo and as part of the duo Lydmor & Bon Homme) and drummer/producer […]
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 […]