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    2. New Music Nordics – Album and EP releases for March 2022

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      Denmark Artist Title Format Released Genre Link Andreas Odbjerg Hjem Fra Fabrikken Album 4/3/22 Indie pop Spotify Croatian Amor Remember Rainbow Bridge Album 25/3/22 Ambient Bandcamp Commentary:...

      Denmark

      Artist Title Format Released Genre Link
      Andreas Odbjerg Hjem Fra Fabrikken Album 4/3/22 Indie pop Spotify
      Croatian Amor Remember Rainbow Bridge Album 25/3/22 Ambient Bandcamp

      Commentary:
      Only two Danish finds for the inaugral NMN post. Förlåt! Andreas's album title probably gives a clue, but it's a Danish language release. Don't be put off by the funny language though, and check out the track “i morgen er der også en dag”, with over 8 million Spotify streams.

      Finland

      Artist Title Format Released Genre Link
      As I May Karu Album 4/3/22 Metal Spotify
      Babel Yoga Horror Album 4/3/22 Indie pop SoundCloud
      Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu Album 4/3/22 Death doom Bandcamp
      Lone Deer Laredo Lone Deer Laredo, Vol. 2 Album 18/3/22 Dream pop Spotify
      Louie Blue DIVISION 8 Album 18/3/22 Pop Linkfire
      Pehmoaino Kaukana Kotoa EP 11/3/22 Pop Spotify
      Von Hertzen Brothers Red Alert In The Blue Forest Album 18/3/22 Prog rock Spotify

      Commentary:
      I can get behind Babel's album title and the music there on it. “Eden” is a dream-like opening track from a band compared in the media to the shoegazers Slowdive and also the Cocteau Twins. I hear a little Casey Dienel's “White Hinterland” in there.

      Iceland

      Artist Title Format Released Genre Link
      Axel Flóvent Coexist EP 11/3/22 Indie folk href+
      Moddi Bråtebrann Album 18/3/22 Indie folk Bancamp
      Suð Save The Swimmers Album 15/3/22 Lofi Spotify
      Thorsteinn Einarsson Einarsson. Album 25/3/22 Pop rock Spotify
      ÞAU Taka Vestfirði Album 11/3/22 Folk SoundCloud

      Commentary:
      It's not just album releases covered on NMN, but also beautiful EP's, like Axel Flóvent's. The instrumental title track “Coexist” might not have the obvious popularity of the other tracks, but it carries a melancholic piano very reminiscent of some of Aphex Twin's tracks on “Drukqs”.

      Norway

      Artist Title Format Released Genre Link
      Jenny Hval Classic Objects Album 11/3/22 Singer songwriter href+
      Laughing Stock Zero, Acts 3&4 Album 4/3/22 Prog rock Bandcamp
      Sondre Justad En Anna Mæ Album 25/3/22 Pop SoundCloud
      Team Me Something In The Making Album 11/3/22 Indie pop href+

      Commentary:
      For those of you that missed it, Jenny Hval gave an interview to The Guardian that was posted to Tildes earlier in the month. In it they talk to Rachel Aroesti about their life and how changes in it guided the making of the avant garde musician's new album “Classic Objects”.

      Sweden

      Artist Title Format Released Genre Link
      Dark Funeral We Are The Apocalypse Album 18/3/22 Black metal href+
      Ghost Impera Album 11/3/22 Hard rock href+
      Hilding Hilding Är Död Album 25/3/22 Lofi Spotify
      Imenella Gemini Album 11/3/22 Hip hop Spotify
      Jonathan Johansson Om Vi Får Leva Album 11/3/22 Synth pop Spotify
      José González El Invento (Remix) EP 9/3/22 Indie folk href+
      Laleh Vatten Album 25/3/22 Pop Spotify
      Léon Circles Album 4/3/22 Pop Spotify
      Loom Asymmetry EP 10/3/22 Shoegazing Spotify
      Lucky Lo Supercarry Album 25/3/22 Electropop Bandcamp
      Meshuggah Immutable Album 31/3/22 Extreme metal Spotify
      MFMB Sugar Album 25/3/22 Rock Bandcamp
      New Horizon Gate Of The Gods Album 4/3/22 Power metal href+
      ORD Hemligheter På Vägen Album 21/3/22 Piano Bandcamp
      Pure Shores Nightfall Feelings EP 4/3/22 Dance pop href+
      REIN & Djedjotronic Transmutation EP 11/3/22 Electronic Bandcamp
      Sabaton The War To End All Wars Album 4/3/22 Power metal href+
      Tobias Bäckstrand Heal Album 18/3/22 Folk Spotify

      Commentary:
      Being based in Sweden means that this list is inevitably the longer of them. There are some great pop releases in March, especially with Lucky Lo's catchy release “Supercarry” among them. But for international name recognition, they are all overshadowed this month by the first new Ghost LP since 2018.

      4 votes

    33. What’s an album that’s deeply personal to you?

      ~music Ask (survey)
      Tell us about an album that means a lot to you, and, most importantly, why it means so much. What makes it resonant? Why do you connect with it so strongly? To be clear, it doesn’t have to be...

      Tell us about an album that means a lot to you, and, most importantly, why it means so much.

      What makes it resonant? Why do you connect with it so strongly?

      To be clear, it doesn’t have to be literally applicable to your life. It could be, for example, an album that you listened to at a certain point in your life and thus connect it with that. I’m asking this question more to get at the stories than the music itself. Tell me yours!

      13 votes