Originally Posted by Alfred (Post 1099000)

Awesome album that I really need to listen to again. I don't listen to a lot of black metal, but I appreciate its atmosphere and vibe, and this album does a perfect job of making those two aspects more... available? Best word I can think of. :p:

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1098973)

I'm still on the fence when it comes to this whole "Blackgaze" movement cropping up in France. While I'm not opposed to musicians using black metal as a basis but progressing the sound beyond the conventional sound (I mean two of my favourite bands are Solefald and Emperor), I just haven't been as "wowed" by this sound as others. I thought Écailles de lune was a nice album and gave me the incentive to check out a few of the others (Lantlos' .neon (2010), Austere's To Lay Like Old Ashes (2009), and Les Descrets' Septembre et ses dernières pensées (2010)), but none of them convinced me that this is going to carve itself a permanent niche and become more widespread.

Originally Posted by RVCA (Post 1099966)

14. Cap'n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On, and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over (1994, Emo/Post Hardcore)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/albu...2e/o441851.jpg

If you've ever been a teenager, as I'm assuming most of you have at some point, and you've ever had emotions (particularly lust and frustration), I think you'll find Burritos quite agreeable. You've got some kids banging away at their instruments and one dude absolutely effacing everything humanity has ever learned about singing. There's nothing fancy here. No gimmicks, not very much technical skill, not a whole lot of polish... and I think that's exactly what makes this an essential Emo album. Rather nonsense and surrealistic lyrics combine with frequent shifts in tempo best described as "spazz attacks" to create something raw and real. And from what, a bunch of 16 year olds? Impressive.

Kitty kitty cat, kitty kitty cat...

Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1100083)

i downloaded and listened to the Alcest album a few times the other night.....at first it kind of made me think of what Sigur Ros might sound like if rather than starting to make crappy pop albums they started making more "metal" sounding albums but kept the unique style they had......i love the mixture of harmonious metal and jarring "black" style screams and guitar....loved this actually

thanks :)

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 1100478)

I'm assuming the "probably already listened to" is meant to be irony, because I've never heard of either of these bands, and Cap'n Jazz sounds especially obscure to most people...at least, I would assume o.O

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 1100478)

I'm assuming the "probably already listened to" is meant to be irony, because I've never heard of either of these bands, and Cap'n Jazz sounds especially obscure to most people...at least, I would assume o.O

However, Alcest is awesome. So thanks for making this thread, cause I'm diggin' them