Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde - Alcest

Le Secret - Alcest

even further despite their obvious similarities, the latter generally taking on a more traditional black metal style shifted into major keys and with a large sprinkling of fairy dust. Alcest s lyrics, all written in French (and in the case of the second song, taken entirely from a poem by Charles Baudelaire), are aimed at evoking the atmosphere and mood of Neige s childhood fantasy realm the "fairy land" to which we are all invited as a temporary escape from harsh Avignon reality, an image that the album s old-style photos of children and samples of chirruping birds and a babbling stream at the start of the recording help to put in place before the music pulls ...

Le Secret - Alcest

even further despite their obvious similarities, the latter generally taking on a more traditional black metal style shifted into major keys and with a large sprinkling of fairy dust. Alcest s lyrics, all written in French (and in the case of the second song, taken entirely from a poem by Charles Baudelaire), are aimed at evoking the atmosphere and mood of Neige s childhood fantasy realm the "fairy land" to which we are all invited as a temporary escape from harsh Avignon reality, an image that the album s old-style photos of children and samples of chirruping birds and a babbling stream at the start of the recording help to put in place before the music pulls ...