Zerone: Be-side by Aleksi Salo Rock · 2025

Zerone: Be-side blends melancholic indie rock, dream-tinged post-metal, and quiet folk minimalism into a single drifting narrative. Clean arpeggiated guitars, deep synthetic bass, soft piano, and spacious drums create a reflective, slow-moving soundscape, while the vocals stay breathy and unornamented.

The album moves through summer into early autumn: from the polar-day inner glare of Ciaroscuro, through the late-July pulse of Fruntimmersveckan (the traditional Scandinavian “women’s week” of namedays and unstable summer weather), into the working crush of the metropolis in Oshiya and the endless inner ticking of Calendar. Pradenn holds the warmth of meadow memories, Sargassum turns into early-September introspection with daily obligations tightening their grip, C-ballad drifts toward a distant love, and it all closes with Linnut liitelee ilmaan — a cinematic sauna hymn where steam and birds rise into the sky.

Overall, the record feels like a quiet passage of time rather than a collection of songs — unhurried, contemplative, and emotionally restrained, where memory, routine, and small human warmth coexist without ever needing to resolve into certainty.