France is not a country characterized by a large number of metal bands; however, the ones it gives are generally of a very high cut. ‘Quality before quantity’, those who know would say. Such is the case of the blackgaze of Alcest, a duet that over almost two decades of career, has confirmed time and time again that it has to put itself in the taste of the most demanding.
The band’s new album, ‘Spiritual Instict’, Which will reach everyone’s hands on October 25 is no exception to the rule that the natives of Bagnols-sur-Cèze have imposed themselves. Throughout only six large pieces, they firmly reiterate that position.
The album opens melodically with ‘Les Jardins De Minuit’, a song with the distinctive seal of the band, combining natural settings, with the voice of Neige that changes from clean to heartbreaking screams that could well fit into the blackers beginnings of the band.
If something knows how to do well Alcest, is to combine the calm moments of calm with bursts of pure fury – of course, inside the shoegaze – like the one that presents us’Protection‘, the first single from the album, a song that is gradually being built just like ‘Sapphire’, following the same precepts that they forged in their previous work, ‘Kodama’.
The album’s title is something that fits perfectly, because throughout the half-dozen songs, we can find a spiritual air, turning to the idea of us as humanity and what it means and where we should go.
‘L’Ile Des Morts‘breaks the atmosphere that the album has in general with synthesizers and dark sounds that contrast with the message of hope that it carries with it. It is perhaps the highest point of the album and the most enjoyable song on it.
Alcest He created an album full of quite interesting musical landscapes, where we can go from joy to depression, melancholy and hubbub in one song. ‘Spiritual Instinct’, clearly not the best work of the band; However, it is a step forward in the evolution of its sound and despite not being among the positions of honor, it does not detract at all from the step that Alcest takes firmly in the world of music.
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