Cleans and pristines for days.

Album Rating: 1.5

100% wuss

Album Rating: 4.5

^ apt description of me tbh

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh man Air may be better after all, it has some really nice highlights!

Album Rating: 4.0

Menstronoid

Album Rating: 3.0

The more I listen, the less I like it. I hope it's a cyclical thing.

Album Rating: 4.5

Still enjoying this, I remember thinking they could make something excellent one day after hearing their EP when it released, seems that day has come.

Album Rating: 4.0

Why do people always bring up Deafheaven? Deafheaven didn't make this sound. Alcest did. Deafheaven just completely and totally ripped them off. Use Alcest for the comparison. Deafheaven are shameless thieves and deserve no credit for anything except for making blackgaze boring somehow.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

where did the bad man touch you

really stoked to check this band out. hadnt even heard of them until now

Album Rating: 4.0

They're pretty good, like a mix of Devin Townsend, Alcest, and Coheed & Cambria.

Album Rating: 4.0

That’s actually pretty accurate lol.

Album Rating: 2.5

Deafheaven made blackgaze commercially accessible. Alcest is a niche band, so is Deafheaven but Deafheaven appeals to a broader audience. Also, Deafheaven hasn't released a bad album. I can't say the same about Alcest.

Album Rating: 4.0

Alcest has never released even an average album they’re all amazing, last Deafheaven album is one of the worst pieces of trash ever.

You should be incredibly embarrassed that you said that Manatee

Album Rating: 4.0

Roads to Judah was a carbon copy of Alcest with some emo thrown in. Sunbather bored me to tears. The one after was ok. The newest was boring.



Alcest is absolutely as big as Deafheaven. Deafheaven most definitely doesn't appeal to a bigger audience. When I saw Deafheaven live the crowd was puny. When I saw Alcest live the crowd was much bigger, but Alcest played with Enslaved so I'm sure people were there for them whereas Deafheaven played with Diiv and that was a soporific show for certainty.



Also the only Alcest album I wasn't THAT huge on was Shelter. The others are all in my favorites, absolutely stunning band. Les Voyages de L'ame is magical.

Album Rating: 2.5

I am sorry that I found Ordinary Corrupt Human Love to be the AOTY last year. I stand by what I say. Alcest has one meh album and that is Shelter, the rest of their discography is 4 or above. I don't find it edgy nor cool nor do I give a flying fuck what someone else thinks. You don't like the new Deafheaven album, cool, go listen to some obscure shit only 5 people have heard if that is your thing. I don't fucking care.

Album Rating: 4.0

Kodama and Ecailles are both flawless and the others aren’t far behind. Sunbather is one of my fav albums ever and I honestly love everything between both bands except Deafheaven’s latest atrocity.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I made that post while listening to Tyler the Creator, don't care about obscurity at all. Alcest has just under 100k monthly listens on Spotify, Deafheaven has just over 110k. Trying to pretend like Alcest is some obscure band compared to the monolith that is Deafheaven is crazy. They're the same level of popular. The difference is one of them (Alcest) was an incredibly original band that created an entire style of music. The other just ripped them off.

Album Rating: 2.5

Alcest essentially invented Blackgaze, it is hard for a blackgaze band to not release a carbon copy of one of their albums. Look at half of the blackgaze bands... I also wouldn't call Astronoid blackgaze.