Alcest - Spiritual Instinct (2019)

Artist: Alcest
Title: Spiritual Instinct
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Post Rock, Shoegaze, Atmospheric
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:41:00
Total Size: 94 mb | 268 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Spiritual Instinct
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Post Rock, Shoegaze, Atmospheric
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:41:00
Total Size: 94 mb | 268 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Les jardins de minuit
02. Protection
03. Sapphire
04. L'Île des Morts
05. Le Miroir
06. Spiritual Instinct
For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, ALCEST has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, their forthcoming sixth album Spiritual Instinct finds Neige at his most personal. This time I had something urgent to put on the table, he explains. It is a very cathartic record - something needed to get out of me. Its darker than usual, and heavier. Written in bursts both during and after a prolonged period of touring in support of 2016s hugely successful Kodama, the sense of urgency Neige speaks of manifests in a record full of spontaneity, of immediate impact be that in the breath-taking pace of the tempo changes in 'Les Jardin De Minuit' or the sun-kissed harmonies over an impermeable back beat in 'Sapphire', one thing Spiritual Instinct has is riffs, an acknowledgement and celebration of the black metal foundations that anchor their uplifting post-metal. Some real metal riffs! agrees Neige. I come from the metal scene originally and it never really left me; I used black metal as a teen as a way to escape from reality and thats what I love the most about it. Its the best type of music to express overwhelmingly darker feelings. I usually dont speak about my darkness in ALCESTs music but this time it felt like something I had to do.