Autre Temps

"Autre Temps" (Another Time) opens Les Voyages de l'ame at 5:50, with music and lyrics by Neige. An edited version of 4:32 was released as a single on December 2, 2011, with a German 7-inch, and the video, the band's first, directed by Julien Marie, came out on December 1. Dead Rhetoric's David Gehlke called it the band's first attempt at a pure single. Beats Per Minute's Jason Hirschhorn heard delicately plucked guitar that builds to ignite at 2:18 for one of the album's best moments, and The Obelisk praised a balance of catchy wistfulness and gracefully unfolding melody.

MusicBrainz lists the other versions: a live take from Maida Vale Studios in London on February 27, 2012 (4:35, on the BBC Live Session EP), a 4:45 cut on the album's DVD edition, and live recordings from Hellfest in Clisson on June 19, 2022 (4:33 and 4:47). It is on the 2019 promo EP Protection (5:48) and several promo compilations. Setlist.fm lists it as Alcest's most played song, 536 performances when we looked, ahead of "Percees de lumiere" (392) and "Delivrance" (359); on the European tour with Svalbard and Doodseskader from November 2024, including L'Olympia in Paris on December 6 and Electric Brixton in London on December 11, it was an encore.

We found no statement from Neige on what it is about, no covers and no chart entry for the single, and could not tell which of these versions our upload is.