2:24 - 4:00 is just so fucking perfect. That guitar solo part with the sound of children playing outsides takes you back to your childhood immidiately, you can't even do anything about it. It will take you back 100%. This Song and Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde put nostalgia into a listenable experience like nothing else ever did.
I discovered Alcest back in 2013, I remember falling asleep with my gf with this one album on. Then I woke up, album still playing, she was still sleeping and I had a really strange feeling that I can't describe, it was some sort of melancholy and deep calmness at the same time. That feeling hasn't a name, it was very strange. Perhaps calmness because I was with her, perhaps melancholy because my future-I was looking at that moment that wasn't going to happen again as she abandoned me.
@@ivanivan5511 He certaintly was atleast one of the fathers of Existentialism. I especially remember one of his taughts, about how it is strange that during the positive experience sometimes we take a step back - little distance, to capture it in a way, in order to fully remember it. Like we are investing in ourown future nostalgia. I can see why music of Alcest had said effect on you. It is sad, nostalgic, yet so peaceful and commforting at the same time. Although I don't have similar experience as you, I have been falling in love in Alcest's music recently. It is a rediscovery for me.
@@vojkanjovanovic7940 I honestly had no idea of this thought you mentioned. I feel now I might have experienced that same feeling or mental phenomena or at least something similar. It was like being nostalgic of the present which it sounds contradictory, but now that I'm in the future I do feel that same nostalgia remembering that moment.
TRANSLATION: In the springtime, the underwood Is an emerald-splangled Sky. The tree leaves are dancing With the soft breeze And the sunbeams, So that they turn into jewels In their light.
Its been 17 years and I still cant believe how much emotion and meaning this album still carries anytime you listen, there's no other as this exact one... Cant believe its been so long since its release, totally most wonderful and melancholic experience ever...
Hard to believe the first time I listened to this was 13 years ago ... I immediately fell in love, but never imagined the extent to which this music would impact me. What a crazy ride, being alive.
I'm way late to the party but.. this is one of the most powerful and emotional songs I have ever heard. And at 47 years old, I've been around the musical block. Fucking beautiful.
No words for what this band has meant to me over the years. Actually met Neige in passing without knowing it was him. Lantlos and Alcest are a part of my heart.
Les sous-bois au printemps Sont une voûte céleste Constellée d'émeuraudes. Les feuilles des arbres dansent Avec la brise légère Et les rayons du soleil Pour que sa lumière Les transforme en joyaux.
Alcest is Neoplatonic, high- and late-scholastic; and also, Wordsworthian ("And I have felt / A presence that disturbs me with the joy / Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime, / Of something far more deeply interfused, / Whose dwelling is the light of settings suns, / And the round ocean and the living air, / And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; / A motion and a spirit, that impels / All thinking things, all objects of all thought, / And rolls through all things."). If we're not too smug to let ourselves trust our true feelings, we love this band.
2:50 to 4:05 feels like my soul gets out from my body and roams about...i am literally unable to concentrate outside an ethereal trance when it happens. and the William Wordsworthian lyrics!! damn!!
14 years ago one my girlfriend broke with me and it was really hard time. I wasnt metalhead but got luck to find this album. Listening it nonstop like weeks. It was the only thing healed me that days and still is.
Great album! It is a great surprise to find this material. The songs generate a pleasant atmosphere despite what one might suppose in the face of so much distortion and great moments of double tempo.
The production values are actually what you'd find in a bleak low-fi black metal album which makes the contrast to the purely blissful bright sounding melodies all the more shocking
wanna hear some crazy shit? when my son was like 4 and i used to pick him up from daycare,, i used to listen to this song all time,, when the playground part starts i tear up everytime,, idk what it is,, hope for life,, grief for life. idk,, what a deep song and deep choice in the playground part
I agree. The production at the last albums made them sound small compared to the early ones. After they got into good and clean production their sound lost the impact they had on Souvenirs...
Your comment is a bit old, but the blackgaze subgenre has its roots in black metal and I do believe Neige pioneered it into mainstream. So, there shouldn't be any surprise here.
@@dot5511 I also saw Alcest with Anathema in Ljubljana and you're right: seems to me Alcest took their inspiration for sure from old Anathema!! Old(90s) Anathema is great; now(2017.) they play boring dad rock! :D Cheers :)
@@dot5511 but 90s/80s Anathema is SO different then today. Literally different band/music.. Don't like it. They said themselves at the concert They "grew up" and they don't play metal anymore, only rock. Lol so bad :)
