Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

It's decent, but all the other albums are way, way better.

Album Rating: 4.0

Autre temps is heavenly.

Album Rating: 3.5

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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

first 3 songs are perfect.

Album Rating: 4.0

The first two tracks + sixth are perfect [2]

Album Rating: 3.5

^ my dude knows

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

faiseurs is pretty nice

Album Rating: 3.5

that uplifiting lil tremolo riff near the end tho

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

don't forget about the title track. the last 2 minutes of that song might be my favorite Alcest moment ever, and that's saying a lot.

Album Rating: 5.0

Still my favourite Alcest album. Just feels more complete than the others for me, though I need to give "Souvenirs d'un autre Monde" more of a listen.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Souvenirs is a pretty immediate album, it's beautiful throughout. It took me some time to appreciate this as much as I do now though. Écailles de Lune is still there best imo.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

pretty much agreed. this feels like the fullest expression of the Alcest concept where souvenirs and ecailles explore individual dimensions of the sound. still have more emotional attachment to souvenirs though.

Album Rating: 4.0

After listening to the t/t again, I have to say it's a lot better than I initially gave it credit for. So yes, the first three are more or less perfect.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Idk how you could think this is a more complete album than Ecailles, but opinions and stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

I think Ecailles is by far their most fleshed out and complete album. That's why I wish they would try a new aesthetic again, this one is pretty typical Alcest forest elf shit, still rules though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I want to hear some more black metal influenced stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

Same here man.

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Yeah that would be sweet.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Faiseurs de Monde shows the way it's done, one of my favorite Alcest songs, and as much as I like Shelter for what it is, I find it kinda sad that they didn't tie in with that.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I just think that this is definitely more filled out as a complete album, though that doesn't necessarily make it better. pre-Shelter Alcest has two major modes in my mind: the more hazy, nostalgic, earthy shoegazey stuff and the clearer, "celestial" or whatever you want to call it tracks that rely more on the post-rock and bm influences. the original Le Secret ep had one song in each style, and then Souvenirs and Ecailles each took one of those respectively and fleshed it out. the way i see it, this album brings those two back together and in a way fulfills the proof-of-concept that was Le Secret.



also, Ecailles is kind of lacking in any coherent structure, peaking in the first 20 minutes and then kind of just throwing out 3 more songs (solar song doesn't really fit the album's mood either), whereas this has a really concrete and intentional structure. Ecailles de lune as a complete song is definitely better than anything on here, but I remember even when it first came out lots of people actually said it might have been better as an ep with just the title track. I just feel that this is more thought out in terms of being a full length album.