shedfromthebody - Whisper and Wane (2025)

It's becoming a layman tradition that if it's a winter of an odd year, there's a new album from Suvi Savikko, better known as Shedfromthebody. And it surprise anyone as the Finnish artist's music is as dark as the long, freezing nights in Scandinavia and equally mysterious.

The artist's signature style stays the same: the more dreamy than nightmarish vocals play the main role not only to boost up the atmosphere, but also convey intriguing melodies (very Scandinavian dark pop-like) and disturbing lyrics. And the music stays decisively in the background, even if it is made with metal-like instruments, it is designed to accompany the vocals, but nothing more. While usually it's something that bothers me (I'm looking at you, Dry Cleaning), here it makes a perfect sense. It's like dark ambient backgrounds but played with real (I think) instruments. And also being a bit metal. Still, it works.

It should also be mentioned that Savikko is also a talented visual artist and she painted the cover art (and company pieces available to see at her Instagram) herself. They are also really good. And unsettling. But as Shedfromthebody describes herself: she's a "provider of immaculate vibes". Checks out.

Whisper and Wane costs 7 EUR.

Check: Mooring

Country: Finland

Genre: dark doomgaze

shedfromthebody - To Hold the Ripened Sun (2021)

shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum (2020) 

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shedfromthebody - To Hold the Ripened Sun (2021)

Last year, Suvi Savikko and her music project completely swept me of my feet with her blackgaze ethereal masterpiece A Dead and Aimless Hum. I named her the best post-metal act of the year and I couldn't be more happy from the fact that only 12 months later, she's back with another record called To Hold the Ripened Sun.

The Finnish artist's "music paints a distorted, ethereal landscape, through which she carries her songs with hauntingly beautiful vocals and lone, wailing guitars". The second album sounds really like a followup to the debut with very similar atmosphere reached by the doom metal musician. She effortlessly combines the metal-like darkness and grandeur with the ethereal, oneiric vocals and slow pace of the more dreamy genres. As a result, her music is both goth and airy, doom-like and soothing. 

There are some tasty surprises, most notably In the Pines and its folk-like beginning that goes on as an Americana ballad with crunchy guitars and way clearer vocals. Or, my favourite part, the mesmerizing, very modern-sounding repetitive finish of Halfsorrow. I particularly like the quality of guitar sounds that, although very heavy, doom-like style, give a lot of room for the vocals to enchant their own, dreamy spells on the audience.

To Hold the Ripened Sun costs 10 EUR.

shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum (2020)

Check: Halfsorrow

Country: Finland

Genre: ethereal blackgaze

Label: Black Terror Records

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shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum (2020) EN

Shedfromthebody is a "spooky baby" from Finland and it seems that those origins are well audible in her music. The artist released recently her debut album and, damn, is A Dead and Aimless Hum good.

On one hand shoegazing vocals and atmosphere, on the other clear doom vibes, this is the music served by the Finn. And then there are inspiration drawn from dark folk, blackgaze, etc. Interesting combo, in practice, it sounds like a darker, slower version of shoegaze created with delicately guitar-based but atmosphere-filled music. I was slightly afraid that the doom influences would sound kitschy but it quickly came to me that it's completely opposite - the Scandinavian, metal spirit makes the album more complex and it's no wonder that it was recommended by Violet Cold himself.

Those inspirations sometimes are better visible (as in the fueled with very metal guitar sounds Sol) but to me, the most important songs are those that could as well be featured on Chelsea Wolfe's Hiss Spun , as the great Curl and Cherubian Hand. Very, very good debut.

A Dead and Aimless Hum costs 10 EUR.

Check: Cherubian Hand

Country: Finland

Genre: dark folk doomgaze

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shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum (2020) PL

Shedfromthebody to "spooky baby" z Finlandii i wydaje się, że miejsce pochodzenia słychać w jej muzyce bardzo wyraźnie. Artystka wydała niedawno swój debiutancki album i, szlag, A Dead and Aimless Hum robi wrażenie.

Z jednej strony shoegaze'owe wokale i atmosfera, z drugiej słyszalne doomowe vibe'y, taką muzykę serwuje nam Finka. A do tego dochodzą inspiracje dark folkiem, blackgaze'em, etc. Ciekawa mieszanka, w praktyce brzmi to jak mroczniejsza, powolniejsza wersja shoegaze'u tworzonego z pomocą łagodnie gitarowej ale ociekającej atmosferą muzyki. Trochę się obawiałem, że doomowe naleciałości będą trąciły kiczem, ale szybko przekonałem się, że jest zupełnie inaczej - skandynawska, metalowa dusza dodaje płycie fantastycznej głębi, nic dziwnego, że album zdążył już polecić Violet Cold.

Czasem te inspiracje są lepiej widoczne (jak choćby w napędzanym bardzo gitarową gitarą Sol) ale na mnie największe wrażenie robią kawałki, które mogłyby znaleźć się na Hiss Spun Chelsea Wolfe jak na przykład znakomite Curl czy Cherubian Hand. Bardzo, bardzo dobry debiut.

A Dead and Aimless Hum kosztuje 44 złote (10 EUR).

Sprawdź: Cherubian Hand

Kraj: Finlandia

Szufladka: dark folk doomgaze

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