Album Rating: 5.0
You keep saying that but I just barely like Shelter, found it very meh.
Just relistened to the debut. Actually a bit boring and not quite as good as I remember. Voyages next.
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Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off
Shelter is sooooooo damn good.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Like, same way that Opeth's Damnation is good? Cause that album bores me too lol.
Delivrance (off Shelter) is really good. I can just listen to that song by itself and have my fill of that sound.
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Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off
I love Damnation too so idk lol. Atmosphere on Shelter is off the charts.
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Album Rating: 4.5
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L'Envol, Amethyste and Flamme Jumelle is the best 3 track run of 2024 by some distance for me""
dude bubble butt buddha flamme jumelle is prob gonna be my fav trrack of the decade i wouldnt be surprised. its like delicious sunlight fragrant iris velvety blanket perfection
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Album Rating: 5.0
Jumelle is incredible, even better in context than as a single.
It's like the best parts of every 5-ish minute Alcest song meshed together.
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Album Rating: 4.5
just sounds like kodama and shelter squashed together at least to my ears, earlier alcest had a lot more minor intervals and melancholic vibes, idk, could just be my perception, doesnt sound like a rehash good or bad of everything they've done before
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Album Rating: 2.5
both shelter and damnation slap
last three alcest albums are non-mandatory listening
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Album Rating: 4.0
Flamme Jumelle is Alcest's prettiest ever song.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Voyages is actually a bit better than I remember, have to bump. Still a bit too overlong and slow-moving but really consistently solid.
Shelter's up next.
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Damnation being a chore has a lot to do with dreich prog balladry and Shelter being (by Alcest's standards) excellent has a lot to do with leaning harder into expansive songwriting that cruises on atmosphere rather than riffs. Terrible comparison between two totally different records
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Album Rating: 5.0
I made that comparison because each of those albums was a pretty drastic change in overall sound and style for each respective band (Damnation probably moreso than Shelter). Both were "softer" versus everything that came before them, and I found both boring.
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Album Rating: 4.5
voyages has some good stuff but i think theres something with the sounds that kind of drains me, but nowhere near as bad as SI. the snare sounds like its underwater or somethin
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Album Rating: 5.0
Production on SI was definitely off. If it weren't for that and the closer having it's best part in the middle of the song instead of at the end, I would probably have 5'd it. Absolutely love the darker more aggressive tone on that one.
Almost as much as I love the warm and sunny feel of this one.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Production on SI was definitely off. yeah dude i couldn't listen to the record more than twice bc of how gross it sounded to me
anyway kodama > l'aurore >shelter > souvenirs > écailles > voyages > > > spiritual
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Album Rating: 5.0
Budgie, I love that you 5'd this but putting Ecailles that low is bananas.
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Album Rating: 4.5
just frame it as putting shelter and souvenirs that high instead of écailles that low !!
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budgie ranking is not that far off tbh - this belongs in the bottom half rather than the top half, but can't rly drag it beyond that
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ok just finished their earlier albums
Yeah this and Kodama are def my favorites out of their discog, its not even terribly close for me
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
"Budgie, I love that you 5'd this but putting Ecailles that low is bananas. "
i'd put ecailles even lower. it's their worst album.
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