Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
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zakalwe
September 29th 2019


41935 Comments


I think this is the best album I have listened to this year. Bloody love it.

budgie
September 30th 2019


42295 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

that makes me so happy zak

i love this album to death



Pikazilla
September 30th 2019


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is second best after Ecailles

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

that makes me so happy zak

i love this album to death [2]

luci
October 1st 2019


12844 Comments


surprised zak likes something this effete

zakalwe
October 1st 2019


41935 Comments


This is effete in a stick thin French bloke who smokes about 70 fags a day while holding them in a woman like manner (hand on hip, the lot) but is probably hung like a horse

Not effete in an anime, cutesy eyed, bashfully shy, fawned over by 50yr olds spaffing from their shrew like penises into school girl underwear bought from a vending machine way.

It’s a 5 this I tell ya.

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I've had individual listens where it was a 5/5 but in general I don't think its quite there. More like a 4.7. ;-P

zakalwe
October 1st 2019


41935 Comments


Les Iris is 5.
Tir Nan Og is 5.
Rest is all high 4.5s

It’s a 5.

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Interesting, "Tir Nan Og" is my least favorite here at a 4/5. "Printemps Emeraude" and "Les Iris" are 5s, rest are 4.5s.

We need to get Doof to weigh in on this, could we have a rare Boney/zak consensus but a Doof hate? He rated their most recent one a 2 (I have that one at a 4.5 as well).

DoofDoof
October 1st 2019


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Never liked what I've heard by Alcest before but 'ere we go...

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Ask and ye shall receive!

DoofDoof
October 1st 2019


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Is this going to be Deafheaven with Ride vocals?

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This one mostly doesn't have the metal their other stuff does, instead it's primarily folky shoegaze but it's very twee in a way... My guess is a Doof 2.5 but I could be surprised, I would have thought zak wouldn't get much out of it either.

zakalwe
October 1st 2019


41935 Comments


I’m biding my time and digesting this one before moving onto the other stuff.

I hate the incessant listen, move on, grab the next one compare ‘culture’ that’s occurred with streaming.

I took a walk in the countryside with this on earlier. Along a bridle path, not a soul around, drizzly, slate gray skies and it registered like ‘the old days’

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah this is one meant to be listened to in nature.

I agree, take your time. This one's special, deserves to be savored. Ecailles is special too but in a very different way.

DoofDoof
October 1st 2019


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

well Zak is going to 5 it



I will probably 3 it :D

DoofDoof
October 1st 2019


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I need to zone out the vocals



I'm not good at zoning out vocals



I wish I'd heard this when it came out because everything here sounds like stuff I've heard a million times before so far unfortunately

zakalwe
October 1st 2019


41935 Comments


Les Iris son

theBoneyKing
October 1st 2019


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I mean this was sort of ground zero for "blackgaze" (even though imo this doesn't count as a blackgaze album itself). It's really all about the atmosphere though. Reading into the backstory of this/the Alcest project in general might help though I myself am a bit skeptical about whether Neige made it all up...who knows.

GhandhiLion
October 1st 2019


17793 Comments


"everything here sounds like stuff I've heard a million times before"
You listen to a lot of gaze?


sneaky edit: You listen to a lot of black gaze?



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