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Jan 17, 2014It is the soundtrack to every want and desire, and every wish and memory--but most of all, it is simply beautiful.
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Jan 17, 2014Though Alcest have left the majority of their metal signifiers behind, they've discovered another kind of heaviness via gorgeous, shimmering melodies.
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Jan 17, 2014For now, Shelter is a phenomenal start along a new path.
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Feb 10, 2014Frankly, it’s a bit of a corker.
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Jan 21, 2014It is an album you should breathe, if only for one play.
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Feb 27, 2014The songs are effortlessly pleasant even when they threaten to dissolve into the ether like the woolly memory of a sweet dream receding into your subconscious.
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Kerrang!Jan 28, 2014Shelter is the first great album of 2014. [18 Jan 2014, p.52]
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Jan 22, 2014If you can’t conceptually get behind the concept of a metal kid giving up noise for beauty, you’re probably not going to like the record. Otherwise, check it out. It’s lovely.
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Jan 17, 2014A typical shoegaze/post-rock album that, while beautifully constructed and breathlessly blissful, doesn’t recreate the same level of escapism for the listener that rendered Alcest’s past works so overwhelming and otherworldly.
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Jan 21, 2014Even in its self-conscious worship of shoegaze it could easily become a late addition in that genre's canon. Shelter is expertly crafted, inspired, vulnerable, and honest.
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Jan 21, 2014s an aural analgesic, it goes down smooth and numbs what it needs to. But instead of tearing open the passageway between this world and whatever lies beyond, it shrinks that portal to the size of a keyhole.
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Jan 22, 2014It’s less dynamic, less technical, less energetic, less everything.
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Jan 24, 2014With Shelter, Alcest have abandoned bracing storm bursts, leaving a too monotonous calm.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 37
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Mixed: 4 out of 37
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Negative: 2 out of 37
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