Rating: 4.5/5
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“…[M]ore of what you would expect from Alcest: that droning shoegaze place caught between joy and melancholy. The vocals are wondrous and mellow. You might think the drums would fall to the background like they do with a lot of post-black metal, but they’re way up there, produced well, and dynamically engaging.” ~Breath of Mozym

Rating : 4/5

Les Discrets is a band that has been playing musical chairs with Phest, Amesoeurs, and Alcest via members Winterhalter and Fursy Teyssier. Even Neige has had a hand in this. It stands quite apart of these other projects though, with less of a shoegaze post-black feel and more of an amalgamation of 80s/90s gothic rock, along the lines of Fields of the Nephelim and semi-acoustic atmospheric metal, such as Agalloch.

Rating : 4.5/5

It goes without saying that shoegaze black metal is a miniscule sub-genre, and it can also be assumed that Neige, the artist behind Alcest, stands in the foreground of this sub-genre.

Rating : 4.5/5

Maiestrit is not a typical rehash of an early album. It takes something that was old and unnoticed and gives it the attention it deserves.

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