Les Voyages de l'ame - Alcest
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82 out of 100

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8.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The French black metal band led by Neige releases its third album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Kerrang!
    Feb 6, 2012
    100
    Les Voyages De L'Ame will surely stand unchallenged as the most ineffably beautiful record of 2012. [21 Jan 2012, p.54]
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  2. All Music Guide
    Feb 2, 2012
    80
    Les Voyages de l'Âme is a great record; self- defining and alluringly elusive.
  3. Exclaim
    Feb 24, 2012
    80
    The music contains all of the trembling beauty fans have come to expect from Alcest, combined with a sense of vitality and wanderlust.
  4. No Ripcord
    Jan 26, 2012
    60
    There's a lot in here that brims with life but, somehow, it never quite unfolds.

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  1. tapo
    10
    As a metal fan I'm just shocked how good this album is. It's a deep traveling album and you don't need to be a metal fan to love. It's just pure music that never ceases to amaze me. I've listened to this more than anything to date in 2012 (written 9/11/12) and it just keeps getting better. You should own this.… Collapse
  2. ShepRock
    9
    Alcest create a limbo lounge for souls weighed down by life's heaviness on these "voyages of the soul", and once acoustically settled in it is an amazingly dark yet beautiful journey through the blackness of uncertainty to the promise of light. But isnt' that what life's about?… Expand
  3. ertuncefeoglu
    9
    I hit this just by coincidence searching for best albums of year 2012. This is a really good listen for a metal fan. Great mix of various sub-genres. The only negative thing about is that I don't know French and cannot understand the lyrics. I wish I could find some English translation.… Expand

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