Les Voyages de l'ame
Their third album: eight songs, opening with "Autre Temps".
Alcest, 2012
Les Voyages de l'ame was streamed in full on January 4, 2012 and released two days later. Neige wrote all the music and the lyrics, except "Nous sommes l'emeraude", whose words are by Charles van Lerberghe. Neige played vocals, guitars, bass and keyboards and Winterhalter drums; Neb Xort mixed and mastered it, and Fursy Teyssier painted the cover. It reached 13 on the UK Independent Album Breakers chart.
Metacritic scored it 82 from ten critics. AllMusic's Thom Jurek gave it four stars, PopMatters 9 out of 10, and Pitchfork's Brandon Stosuy 6.9, writing that there's no denying the beauty, but it feels weirdly muted. Tuonela Magazine called the opener, ten years on, the gateway drug into the band's music.
Track listing
- Autre Temps5:50
- La ou naissent les couleurs nouvelles8:50
- Les Voyages de l'ame6:56
- Nous sommes l'emeraude4:20
- Beings of Light6:11
- Faiseurs de mondes7:57
- Havens2:10
- Summer's Glory8:04
More from Alcest
Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde (2007), Écailles De Lune (2010), Les Yoyages De L'Âme (2012), Shelter (2014), Kodama (2016), Spiritual Instinct (2019), Les Chants De L'Aurore (2024)
Sources
- Les Voyages de l'ame, Wikipedia
- 2012: Alcest, Les Voyages de l'ame, Tuonela Magazine (2022-01-06)