Monday, 28 October 2013

Alcest - Les Iris





There’s something about the French I admire. They can pull off the most soothing sounds ever with a dark calming voice without the risk of being stabbed by me for being too whiny. Do that in other places in the world (well, except Canada but then again, they want to be French), you’ll get awkward stares from me. Heck, even the album cover looks as if it belongs in the self-help section for audio books. Employing elements of post rock, shoe-gazing and a dash of black metal tremolos, this is probably the closest to what I can describe to a hipster, the Edward Sharpe of Black Metal influenced music (notice I said influenced). At times they blast, at times the singer comes into a drone like feel, with the echo effects on, but in a positive calming way. Perhaps you can give this to your hipster friends who somehow know how to use their brains like a 16 year old on MTV does with her legs; OPEN.

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