Well, this is … odd. Shoegaze — yes, it’s a genre. No, seriously. Remember back in the ‘80s when My Bloody Valentine and Ride were big?
And so French post-black metallers Alcest arrive, somewhat inevitably you feel, at that moment of maximum gumby fan distress – the album by a metal band that is not, in any way, sh
Shelter is the fourth album by contemporary shoegazers Alcest, the destination of a long creative musical journey into vast new territories .
If there are two things that we know about the French metal scene, it is that, like Norway, it is very musically incestous, and they all seem to have a deep fondness for shoegaze.
There are times on Until Fear No Longer Defines Us when Finnish misanthropes Ghost Brigade seem to be genuinely revved up and in danger of losing their collective (and no