Sigur Rós: Kveikur Categories: Albums • Alternative • Iceland Sigur Rós: Kveikur Just over a year on from their sixth album, 'Valtari', and a goodbye to Kjartan Sveinsson, Sigur Rós released their seventh full length yesterday. Now a trio the Icelanders have taken themselves to a new and in no way less compelling place on 'Kveikur', a place where their ethereal trademarks ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil: The Piramida Concert Categories: Albums • Alternative • Denmark • Live Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil: The Piramida Concert Last year Efterklang released their marvelous album 'Piramida', which they then began travelling the world with. Not on a regular tour as one could expect, but as a series of 18 concerts with different symphony orchestras starting at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and visiting New ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Soliti Turns Two: Odds, Sods & Found Sounds Categories: Albums • Alternative • Finland • Pop • Rock • Tracks Soliti Turns Two: Odds, Sods & Found Sounds Finnish label Soliti, founded and run by Finland based Brit Nick Triani, celebrates its second birthday with a compilation of new tracks, demos and unreleased songs from the Soliti bands Cats On Fire, Delay Trees, Big Wave Riders, Black Lizard, The New Tigers, Astrid Swan, Paperfangs and Black Twig - ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Blåtime: Leave, Go Categories: Alternative • Norway • Tracks • Videos Blåtime: Leave, Go Hailing from Trondheim, Blåtime (directly translated "blue hour" and likely a reference to the twilight moment each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness) is a brand new trio with just one song out and about. They are, however, off to a pretty good start ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Scarlet Chives: The Timber Will Fall Categories: Alternative • Denmark • Tracks Scarlet Chives: The Timber Will Fall Back in 2011 Scarlet Chives released their eponymous debut album and received quite a bit of praise. Not least in Norway where the Danish alternative rock outfit signed to Riot Factory who will release the yet untitled second album on a date to be specified later, but here's the great ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
When Saints Go Machine: Iodine Categories: Alternative • Denmark • Tracks When Saints Go Machine: Iodine Today When Saints Go Machine's followup to 2011s excellent 'Konkylie' hit the streets in Denmark and the rest of Europe (United States to follow May 28), and to mark that occasion I bring you the two amazing singles from 'Infinity Pool' released so far, 'Iodine' and 'Love And Respect' featuring ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Sans Parade: Sans Parade Categories: Albums • Alternative • Finland Sans Parade: Sans Parade Late last year Finnish trio with friends, Sans Parade, released the first sounds off their eponymous debut in shape of two song single ‘The Last Song Is A Love Song/A Ballet In The Sea’, and earlier this year the album dropped. On it the classically trained singer/songwriter Markus Perttula, former ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Hypertext: Progmatism Categories: Albums • Alternative • Norway Hypertext: Progmatism Last year Hypertext launched a project where they would release a single each month instead of an album and I was right there with them the first three months while predicting that a jewel case compilation of all twelve tracks would surface by the end of the year. To be ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Sigur Rós: Ísjaki Categories: Alternative • Iceland • Videos Sigur Rós: Ísjaki Come mid-June Icelandic post-rock legends Sigur Rós will release their new album ‘Kveikur’ and slowly but steadily sounds begin to seep from the trio's HQ. Late March I shared the awesome ‘Brennisteinn’ and here's the latest offering, 'Ísjaki', which gives you a chance to learn a little Icelandic. A beautiful ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Blind Architect: Lebanon Categories: Alternative • Finland • Videos Blind Architect: Lebanon Friday Finnish post-rock quintet Blind Architect release their debut full length titled 'We Felt Mountains (Just Before We Fell)', and here's the great single 'Lebanon' complete with a no bullshit "band playing in the rehearsal room, sometimes in slow motion" video by Hannu Karppinen. (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children: Circumstances Categories: Alternative • Denmark • Videos Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children: Circumstances Two years on from the DIY release of their debut album 'Nive Sings!', Greenlandic singer/songwriter Nive Nielsen and her band The Deer Children signed label deals and saw it re-released all over Europe last year, and now new sound has emerged from the alt-folk outfit in the shape of the ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Sigur Rós: Brennisteinn Categories: Alternative • Iceland • Videos Sigur Rós: Brennisteinn Back in January Sigur Rós announced that keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson had left the band and that a new album was getting ready for release this year. Now an album title ('Kveikur'), a release date (June 17/18) and a first taste of their new sound ('Brennisteinn') has followed, and simply put ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
Klak Tik: The Servants Categories: Albums • Alternative • Denmark Klak Tik: The Servants Titled after the band his father drummed in back in the 1960s, 'The Servants' is Klak Tik aka Søren Bonke's followup to his excellent debut 'Must We Find A Winner', which made it safely on to our Best Albums of 2011 list (it was released in the UK 2010 and ... (Click To Continue Reading)
 
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