Album review: Alcest's Shelter
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[Grade: B] No matter how strongly you resist, you will be persuaded that life is filled with wonder and warmth.
Alcest | B
The guitar melodies and vocal harmonies on Shelter (Prophecy Productions), the fourth album by French more-shoegaze-than-black-metal band Alcest, are glistening and angelic. The climaxes are heavenward and captivating and, no matter how strongly you resist, you will be persuaded that life is filled with wonder and warmth. But unless you speak French, you won’t know what the hell vocalist Neige is singing about. Doesn’t matter.
