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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the French black metal/shoegaze duo of Neige and Winterhalter was produced by Benoît Roux.
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- Record Label: Nuclear Blast
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Post-Metal, Blackgaze
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Oct 25, 2019Alcest don't pursue darkness or dwell in it; they understand it as a part of the unbearable light that holds everything in its embrace. The end of the journey on Spiritual Instinct, while deeply satisfying, signals yet another beginning.
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Oct 25, 2019What’s emerged is an exploration: of the heavenly and the primal, the savage and the beautiful, the ultimate mystery of what it actually is to be human.
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Oct 25, 2019Alcest have undoubtedly crafted one of their most unified and significant sequences to date. Like its predecessors, it takes some time to peel back all of the layers; once you do, though, you'll find it to be superbly capricious, self-assured, and meaningful.
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Oct 25, 2019The tracks on Spiritual Instinct feel somewhat monotonous, comparatively, since Alcest rarely pull back the reins to accentuate the diversity of their (typically) expansive sound.
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Oct 28, 2019
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