Nordic Music Central

It sounds like a keynote speech at an annual CEO conference but is in fact a new single from Finland’s Stinako and ‘Visions of Future’ is also the title track from a forthcoming LP out on 30th October.

There are artists I always look forward to their releasing of new work and Stinako (Stina Koistinen) is definitely one of them. She’s one of...

While they have only once before appeared in NMC I well remember The Northern Belle. They were the last band I wrote about before I set up NMC in October 2021 and they always made an impression on me as purveyors of serious yet enjoyable Americana.

I’ll attempt to explain what I mean by that. There are so many variations on country music and on Amer...

THEN COMES SILENCE are billed as a post-punk trio, even “the guardians of Swedish post-punk”. I’ve never understood quite what that post-punk phrase means but apart from their mode of dress here I don’t perceive much that’s punky about them. New wave, dark wave, gothic, well yes, that’s a different matter altogether.

‘Judgement Day’ is the ...

The Mukherjee Development paid us a visit last year with a song that seemed to have distinct Britpop roots, and with an element of attitude to go with it.

So you will understand how surprised I was to come across this latest release which has an equally distinct country and western flavour to it. The press release compares it to the product of Kacey...

I’m breaking what is usually a hard and fast rule about not featuring work that is more than a month old. In fact, Music by Lars’ ‘What have we done?’ was released back in May 2025, over a year ago.

But he (Lars Jørgensen) is here all the same and that is partly because I received today a communication from a perennial favourite of ours, No...