New Music Nordics – Album and EP releases for March 2022

mycketforvirrad
2022-06-27T10:23:33Z

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.

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