Lantlôs- Pulse / Surreal

People often under estimate how versatile Black Metal can be. (Yes, there's a hell lot of Black Metal on this blog.) While the rest of the modern Black Metal scene delve into post-rock, the original post rock influenced artist, Neige from the band Alcest, combines his already unique sound with smooth jazz. The tremolo riffs work well along what you would hear along the CD rack that houses dark jazz music. The result, instead of sounding like the dreamy hipster-ish landscape he created in his Black Metal equivalent of a Wes Anderson movie, now transcends into the shivering cold of an urban Western Europe street. I could easily imagine the torment of a homesick walking the streets of Paris listening to this during winter in the middle of the night. Then all of a sudden a deep stab in his heart makes him realize that the streets was where home really is, everything is surreal and the journey is what made him who he is.