Posts Tagged ‘Alcest’

Shoegaze Sunday: Alcest’s “Beings of Light”

Sunday, July 21st, 2013

I can’t decide whether Alcest is Shoegaze, Depressive Metal, or some offshoot of the RenFaire school of ProgRock (more long-forgotten French prog band Manticore than Jethro Tull). Here’s “Beings of Light,” which features a female lead singer rather the usual metal “screaming with a mouthful of gravel” that seems to have become standard in the genre, which they do on some of their other songs.

Whatever it is, it’s interesting enough to be worth a listen.

Shoegazer Sunday: Alcest’s “Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde”

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Alcest, a French shoegazer band that sounds a little bit like M83 by way of Sigur Ros and Midsummer, offers up the compelling “Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde” (“Memories of Another World).