Search - Alcest :: Spiritual Instinct (DIGI in Ocard)

For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, ALCEST has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, their forthcoming sixth album ?Spiritual Instinct? finds Neige at his most personal. ?This time I had something urgent to put on the table,? he explains. ?It is a very cathartic record - something needed to get out of me. It?s darker than usual, and heavier.? Written in bursts both during and after a prolonged period of touring in support of 2016?s hugely successful ?Kodama?, the sense of urgency Neige speaks of manifests in a record full of spontaneity, of immediate impact ? be that in the breath-taking pace of the tempo changes in 'Les Jardin De Minuit'? or the sun-kissed harmonies over an impermeable back beat in 'Sapphire', one thing ?Spiritual Instinct? has is riffs, an acknowledgement and celebration of the black metal foundations that anchor their uplifting post-metal. ?Some real metal riffs!? agrees Neige. ?I come from the metal scene originally and it never really left me; I used black metal as a teen as a way to escape from reality and that?s what I love the most about it. It?s the best type of music to express overwhelmingly darker feelings. I usually don?t speak about my darkness in ALCEST?s music but this time it felt like something I had to do.?