Also, spirituality has been very important for me. I had lost touch with the things I liked doing. It’s very natural and organic, but I will say we were touring a lot for Kodama, which really led to me feeling like I was overworked. Neige: When you have a project and you want to make it really authentic there’s no real plan for it. Spiritual Instinct is a bit different from Kodama. So, that’s what we’re working on coming up.
The venue is at one of the most beautiful venues in Paris. I’m doing a show with Perturbator, actually. It’s six bands collaborating two bands at a time. Neige: We have this thing is being put on by Red Bull.
What are Alcest up to now that Spiritual Instinct is coming into view? Sometimes, they come and more frequent pulses, but there’s no escaping the waves of his night/day songwriting (lost) soul. There’s breakout single, “Protection,” followed by its more bucolic cousin, “Sapphire.” Then, there’s “L’Île des Mort,” “Le Miroir,” and the title track, “Spiritual Instinct.” In all of them are slivers of Neige’s spiritual duality. Throughout Spiritual Instinct both dark and light are represented. The sunshine side of Neige often has a nostalgic bent, as in there’s no such thing as bad times, only the halcyon days of early spring and late summer. For as much as Neige uses the darker side of his personality to craft songs that feel and are genuinely as pissed off as the Bay of Biscay on a good day. Alcest, now in their 20th year, recognize balance. In a way, Alcest in 2019 are angrier than they ever have been.īut there’s light in the darkness, too. That being said, Spiritual Instinct flows directly from Neige’s time away from routine–as a touring musician, of course–where the things he cherishes in life are absent or unavailable due to changes in location and scene. To follow it, to lead it, to understand that instinct, musically, is sometimes wrong but always right. After the gothic beauty of Écailles de lune and the indie rock brilliance of Shelter, the main songwriter in Alcest, Neige (aka Stéphane Paut) has learned that instinct is the most powerful tool. Now, on their sixth full-length album, titled Spiritual Instinct, the France-based post-black metallers have found the sound they’ve been looking for. bonus CD with bonus track "Into The Waves" (3.Alcest have come a long way since EP Le Secret and full-length Souvenirs d’un autre monde. 2CD hardcover book (48 pages with lyrics, liner notes, translations of the lyrics, ca. Neige's own shelter turned out to be the sea, as well as the tracks of this album, all inspired by and dedicated to it.
The record is about the concept of shelter as a safe place that allows everybody to escape reality for an instant, to reunite with what we really are, deep down. The album which features guest appearances from Slowdive's Neil Halstead (lead vocals on the song "Away"), Sweden's Promise And The Monster’s Billie Lindahl and Amiina's strings sections was recorded at Sundlaugin Studio, Iceland, with Sigur Rós producer Birgir Jón Birgisson who masterfully gave "Shelter" its light and ethereal sound.Ĭonceptually, the title of the album "Shelter" says it all. More than ever the French outfit consisting of mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Neige and drummer Winterhalter embraces the dreamy guitar textures of shoegaze and blends it with the sweetness of british band Cocteau Twins - dream pop pioneers of the mid to late 80's era - epic, soundtrack-like melodies and progressive song structures. "Shelter" is the fourth album by contemporary shoegazers Alcest, the destination of a long creative musical journey into vast new territories.
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