This one managed to slip through the net but is easily deserving of a listen almost two months after it was released.

Vinyl Floor (Thomas Charlie Pedersen and Daniel Pedersen)have been here a couple of times previously but not since 2022, and, separately, Thomas in 2023. Back then we discovered that they were billed as being exponents primarily of p...

An intriguing blend of musical styles from Oslo-based alt-pop artist and producer (Ekaterina) Zueva who successively manages to mix an innocent ‘butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth’ vocal contribution into an atmospheric, slightly shadowy single, ‘So Far’, that chronicles the difficulties of moving on from a relationship that has reached the end of its...

Right now Marte Eberson is performing her album release show for ‘Lights from the Ocean’, which was made available in February.

In typical Marte fashion she does so with a new single, ‘Come on Closer’. I don’t know what the inverse of writer’s block is but Marte has it in spades!

I thought I recognised the title as well. ...

Hanna Roos (Hanna Lönnroos) is a Stockholm-based artist and songwriter, originally from Finland, who has studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, one of several artists from that august institute to have appeared in these pages.

Inspired by 1970s folk rock and singer-songwriters, ‘The Tide’ is a hopeful song about finding balance...

I’ve seen and listened to some depressing titled albums and songs but I have to say that Mary’sCreek’s ‘The Beginning of the End’ takes the biscuit.

You’ll assuredly go to bed with nightmares after listening to (and I’ll list them all) ‘Damnation’/’The Curse’/’Alone in the Dark’/Childhood’s End’/’Shattered Dreams’/ ‘In Darkness’/’Fallin...