Music Review : Alcest – Shelter (2014)
Alcest
takes his origins in black metal but slowly evolved into a shoegaze act playing
on My Bloody Valentine’s field more
than Burzum’s. The album Shelter is an entire dedication to
trippy rock and shoegaze. Since Deafheaven’s
Sunbather, which was a perfected
version of BM and shoegaze in 2013, many BM bands have crossed the lined of
purist kvlt BM.
Alcest is
now far from its BM roots but still in a territory of its own. At first it is a
bit surprising to find a bleak comparison other than the aforementioned bands.
But I would reference Katatonia and its latest entries of rock infused with
darker landscapes. It is the atmosphere and feeling as a whole that still makes
this a somber record that could entice fans of the early Alcest.
It is an
interesting record for its whole texture but its monotony and lack of flavour is
too heavy in the balance compared with its ambition that is limited by the change
of style that Alcest has occured. It is a grey album that transpire a
melancholy and a spleen that is not elevated by its music and lacks in overall
tenure and a monochrome structure that sinks slowly the record from song to
song.
It is an
entry into a genre that is difficult to master and a miss that could not be a
hit but a lesson that experiences are permitted and an average album doesn’t
sink a band but a series could.
6.1
6.1
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