Norway may have been most famed musically for its black metal, but a lot has changed since then. We take a look at the development of Norwegian music over the past ten years and the reasons behind its rise - plus the rosy future. »
As part of our Nordic Music series we asked those wonderful promoters of such music Ja Ja Ja to put together a playlist of songs – what else? – from some of the best and most exciting artists to emerge from the region in recent years. Here's what they came up with. It includes Ungdomskulen, by the way, which I don't need to tell you is almost a necessity as far as we're concerened.»
Rather than us choosing our favourite Nordic records of the last six years and compiling them into some boring and dry list, we thought we'd ask the natives to do the talking (or writing, but that doesn't fit so nicely into a pun...). It's going along with the theme of our Favourite 50 series and hopefully doing it this way will provide a more enlightening and insightful experience than otherwise might have been. Anyway, here's Part I of many, featuring contributions from Hjaltalin, Pacific! and Ungdomskulen.»
Jamie Stewart's bottomless intensity becomes more thorny and difficult to understand with every addition to the Xiu Xiu oeuvre, but his work is always compelling, often to the point of being hypnotic. Squalls of terrifying noise mingle with near-silences in which the only audible sounds are Stewart's distinctive voice and the snap of camera shutters from the front row.»
It's time for another edition of the content-mangled-into-the-form-of-a-playlist that we amusingly dubbed 'Spotifriday'. We hope you enjoy it. It features the BEST sounds from this week's Singles, News, Reviews, and even a couple of tracks, as per usual, from the ever brilliant and increasingly popular armchair dancefloor column.»
Everyone – and I mean everyone is releasing a single this week. So many, that I wanted to use a thoroughly unfair culling method that involved a blindfold, a pointy stick and some glue - or worse, inadvertently lose half my pile down the back of the bin (whoopstheregomyfingers, can't listen to them now, ohdear). Luckily, someone appealed to my better instincts and I did what I am paid to do. Which was to listen to the darned things; ALL FORTY THREE OF THEM. »
This week's winning 45 might seem obvious, but with the singles pile largely comprised of meh releases Radiohead's latest shines brightly as the best. 'Nude' (as heard on E4, et cetera) is our Single of the Week»
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