SOOM – Night on the Meadow (Ніч На Полонині) (2014, Ukraine)
Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 3 on The List, submitted by sichkovskyi. This is the debut studio album from blackened sludge-y stoner doom band SOOM, from Kharkiv, Ukraine. While the Bandcamp description says the album is “dark surrealistic low noise about all & nothing”, elsewhere the band has described it as a concept album telling the tale of 3 brothers and their grandfather getting high and having bad trips in Ukraine’s section of the Carpathian Mountains. For the listener though, it is a most excellent trip, no special plants required.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2026/03/02/soom-night-on-the-meadow-%d0%bd%d1%96%d1%87-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%96-2014-ukraine/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's the Bandcamp: https://soom.bandcamp.com/album/night-on-the-meadow
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SOOM – Night on the Meadow (Ніч На Полонині) (2014, Ukraine)
Our next spotlight is on number 3 on The List, submitted by @sichkovskyi.
Formed in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2013, SOOM released this, their debut studio album, the following year. While the Bandcamp description says the album is “dark surrealistic low noise about all & nothing”, elsewhere on the interwebs says the band described it as a concept album telling the tale of 3 brothers and their grandfather getting high and having bad trips in Ukraine’s section of the Carpathian Mountains.
I had already looked up translations of the lyrics before seeing mention of it being a concept album and so had assumed they were just about standard stoner rock tropes, as there’s something about a talking cat, plenty of mentions of special plants, someone hallucinating themself all the way into a desert, and meeting some sort of special plant deity. But that context plus the “Electric Molfar” character (a molfar is a magician/healer in the Ukrainian/Hutsul folk tradition) files this firmly into the realm of fairytales, which dampens the anachronistic chill a non-Ukrainian listener in the present day might get from the opening track and other scary bits. Indeed, I find this slab of blackened sludge-y stoner doom a rather excellent trip (no special plants of my own needed).
And, I should mention that I was relieved to see that SOOM is still around, as, when The List was compiled, it was already a couple years into the current invasion and they hadn’t been heard from for a few years. SOOM had officially broken up after releasing their 2nd LP, Джєбарс (2018), but they just released a new track in January, “ВСЕ, ЩО Я НАМАГАВСЯ СХОВАТИ“. Long may they doom.
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