Cold in Scandinavia [Spotify]

• The Knife – Silent Shout
• Ólafur Arnalds – Fok
• Röyksopp – What Else Is There?
• Björk – Heirloom
• Johann Johannsson – The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!)
• Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me
• Message To Bears – Hope
• Mew – Am I Wry? No

I've been noticing how much of the new music I'm listening to is coming out of Scandinavia. There are some possibly obvious reasons why of course, with a turn to the melancholy and a belief in recommendation engines being two likely culprits.

Anyway, the plan was to put together a list of new, entirely-Scandinavian music I've been enjoying. What we've ended up with is not entirely new, not entirely Scandinavian, with three tracks from the same vocalist and a bit of a mishmash of styles. I think I'm still safe in the claim of melancholy, though.

Hope there's something you haven't heard before. Hope there's
something you like.

Playlist Club-ber: Ben Burry (aka @benburry)
Ben works as a site reliability engineer, wrangling monsters in Shoreditch. He spends a lot of time at the BFI, a lot of time listening to glitchy electronica and not enough time tinkering with hardware. He is older than he feels.