Nordic Music Central

We have encountered Marius Ziska once before in NMC, in November 2022 when he was singing exclusively in Faroese and a song which translated as ‘In the Garden’. It was about getting to know your inner self and taking your own spiritual journey.

His motivation is to mix electronic pop music with the ‘melancholy’ of the Faroese nature, which ...

I was commenting the other day on the darkness in the new single by Norway’s Ea Othilde but she’s all sweetness and light compared to Denmark’s The Fire Once Lost, which is an Americana/Bluegrass band, led by songwriter Anders Duus.

I recall that last year we featured a song by them, ‘Young when I met you’, a murder ballad waltz which in th...

Ea Othilde (Heimdal Baklund) is a 21-year-old artist from Oslo who has released two EPs, ‘How I’d like it to fade’ (2021) and ‘Mary, aren’t you tired?’ (2023), and a full album, ‘I will not be like that’ (2025). The latter EP and the album both earned her a Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) nomination in 2023 and she has appeared across...

(Tuva) Herou is a Gothenburg-based artist and producer working within the genre of what she calls “dreamy alternative indie” and she releases her EP ‘Ljusspel’ (‘Play of Light’) on 29th May.

The four-track EP is built on themes of darkness, light, and the interplay between them.

A quote about a previous EP offered an observation o...

Zoé-Loes was here not so long ago but despite the waves of new artists awaiting their inclusion in NMC I had to feature this song tonight.

‘Sanctuary’ tells a story that reminds me of the one that is the subject of Nightwish’s song ‘Eva’, one of my favourites by that band and which chronicles the life of an innocent, deeply misunderstood young girl...