Alcest – “L’Envol”

A couple of decades ago, Alcest, the project headed up by the French sonic auteur Neige, pioneered the combination of black metal and shoegaze. Alcest’s vast, crushing, emotive sound has influenced entire generations of bands, and it’s safe to say that underground music would sound very different if they’d never existed. (Since 2009, Alcest as been the duo of Neige and drummer Winterhalter.) But Alcest’s sound isn’t a static thing; they’ve continued to grow and experiment over the...

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