Posts Tagged ‘Les Voyages De L’Âme’

Album of the day: Alcest – Les Voyages De L’Ame

Posted on Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Sputnikmusic: From all the so-called “post-black shoegaze” albums I’ve had to drudge my way through, it’s difficult to enter an album like this without an overwhelming sense of pessimism – mostly because just about none of these bands have any post-rock or shoegaze influences past the occasional use of a shimmery clean melody.

Not only that but the majority of the fanbase of this music see it as some of the most beautiful, amazing music that mankind has made yet – which puts the reviewer in a bit of a difficult spot. Really though, if anything has to be learnt by any music fan on the internet, it’s to not let any fanbase ruin anything for you.

Alcest has a wonderful knack of stirring up emotions and dreamy atmospheres that can only be admired and applauded. It’s not amazing, it never has been. It’s shamelessly pretty sounding music, and for what it is, there aren’t many people that do it better than Alcest – especially on this album, which might just be the album of Neige’s career.

On Les Voyages de L’Âme, Neige refines his dreamy, catchy form of metal to near perfection. But where it’s catchy, there’s also a sense of diversity and depth in the sound that you never really got to hear in the last few albums. It’s still straight forward for the most part but in terms of structure it’s a huge step up from Écailles de lune.

The first track ‘Autre Temps’ may fool you at first, almost taking a verse/chorus structure with one of the most senselessly pretty and pop-like guitar lines that Neige has ever done with his almost angelic-voice harmonizing over it, but from there things really take a huge step up into much more impressive music from both an emotional and musical standpoint. Just about every track here has a distinct feel of its own, taking influences from just about every single album he’s done or participated in, making what could arguably be his quintessential work.

via Alcest – Les Voyages De L’Ame (album review) | Sputnikmusic.

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Alcest: Autre Temps Video Released

Posted on Friday, December 2nd, 2011

‘Autre Temps’, the new video from dreamy post-black metallers Alcest, can be seen below. The song comes off the band’s latest album, Les Voyages De L’Âme, which will be released  on January 6, 2012 via Prophecy Productions.