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Artist......: Alcest
Album.......: Les Voyages de L'ame
Year........: 2023
Genre.......: Metal
Type........: Reissue
Label.......: Prophecy Productions
Cat.No......: PRO122LUX
Language....: French
Source......: CD
Encoder.....: libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality.....: 897 kbps avg. / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Tracks......: 10
Playtime....: 01:03:46
Size........: 441.91MB
R.Date......: 2026-04-21
S.Date......: 2023-04-28
Url.........:
01. Autre temps 5:50
02. La ou naissent les couleurs nouvelles 8:50
03. Les voyages de l'ame 6:59
04. Nous sommes l'emeraude 4:20
05. Beings of light 6:11
06. Faiseurs de mondes 7:57
07. Havens 2:10
08. Summer's Glory 8:09
09. Autre temps (Live at Hellfest 2022) 4:32
10. La ou naissent les couleurs nouvelles (Live 8:48
in Lyon 2018)
I guess itÆs no big surprise when I say, that Les
Voyages De LÆ┬me is a stylistic successor of Ecailles
de Lune - especially if you take a close look on the
cover. There are some differences though, at least
formal ones, as Les Voyages De LÆ┬me offers eight
songs (instead of six) with a total playing time of
50:24 minutes. Speculations, that this record will be
boring etc. û with the new records of Lantl⌠s or Old
Silver Key in mind û are soon refuted as Neige shows
that he still knows how to compose.
You can stop reading here if you know anything from
Alcest, as not really much has changed on Les Voyages
De LÆ┬me and so the typical sound is still provided.
Long-drawn layers of guitar sounds are combined with
clear or harsh, nagged vocals and underlined with the
brilliant drum patterns of Winterhalter. The
orchestration seems to be monolithic, which is quite
normal for Alcest and therefore are enhancing the
created atmosphere, which is somewhat between dreamy,
melancholic, esoteric and/or majestic. The lead
melodies are hearable the whole time, but there are
only some passages in which they are shaping the whole
sound as they become louder. Another big element of
their music stayed the same and so the songs are
mostly defined through the high pitched, clean voice
of Neige which is creating this dream-like atmosphere.
The songs are mostly held in mid-tempo but there are
some black-metal passages as well. Those passages are
either defined through the orchestration or the
vocals, whereby the most parts are defined through
orchestration. When the black metal influences are
implented through the orchestration, the guitars are
playing fast tremolo-picked lead melodies while the
drums are offering double bass and blast beat patterns
while the vocals are still slow and high-pitched with
this dreamy, majestic atmosphere. A good example would
be Being Of Light, as the song itself is quite fast
but through the high-pitched, monotonal vocals there
is still a dreamlike atmosphere. The other way round
would be a mixture of post-rock/black metal patterns
with NeigeÆs brilliant harsh vocals which still
creates a dreamlike atmosphere but with something
unsettling in it.
Les Voyages De LÆ┬me still is no perfectly done record
though and so there are some minor flaws. One of the
diseases of the genre is the repition of several
elements throughout a record and even Alcest is
suffering from it. ItÆs no really bad case, as there
is enough variation left with the different mixtures
of calmer or more aggressive passages/elements, but
there still is this feeling that the songs are a bit
akin. Besides this fact, there isnÆt much to complain
about as Alcest are really skilled and so the songs
are well played and composed. There is no real
highlight song on this record, but thatÆs balanced
with the fact that the overall quality is really high
and no song û even if it exceeds the eight minute mark
û is getting boring.
Conclusion:
You can blame Neige with a lot of things, but he is
still doing everything right when it comes to Alcest.
Les Voyages De LÆ┬me is a worthy successor of the
previous records they released and itÆs surprisingly û
as there are no new elements or influences here û
long-living and wonÆt get boring soon. If you like the
atmospheric style of their songs you will find enough
material to dream about here and if you loved their
previous records you should like this one, too. When
Alcest never produced something you loved you
shouldnÆt risk an ear as nothing has changed so far.
Everyone who is still unsure if he or she should buy
the record can risk an ear on the youtube channel of
Prophecy...