Tag: Les Discrets

  • Alcest – Still the same stone, but what you see is different

    Alcest – Still the same stone, but what you see is different

    January saw the release of Alcest’s latest album, Shelter. Even though I myself am not a big fan of this particular offering from the band, it’s clear to me that it is a proper culmination of gradual changes in Alcest’s sound and direction. As a long-time Alcest fan, I’ve read a number of interviews with…

  • Sombres Forêts – La Mort du Soleil

    Hellbound Metal: “The result is an album which is admirable in its aesthetic approach, but nonetheless disappointingly mundane in its musical execution.”

  • Les Discrets – Ariettes Oubliées…

    Les Discrets – Ariettes Oubliées…

    Without taking Les Discrets’ sound to a more adventurous place, Ariettes Oubliées… unfortunately ends up sounding like an adequate but less inspired version of the band’s debut.

  • Falloch – Where Distant Spirits Remain

    Where Distant Spirits Remain is not the strongest release of its ilk this year, but overall it’s a good debut that shows much future potential and talent. The biggest issues found here (vocals that don’t always fit in as well as tendencies toward being long-winded) are hazards of the band’s chosen style, and both are…