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Shelter

Alcest

Shelter

Fourth album from the band led by Frenchman Stéphane Paut (aka Neige), moving towards shoegaze and away from black metal

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Prophecy Productions
UK Release date
20/01/2014
US Release date
21/01/2014
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    A phenomenal start along a new path
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  2. 9.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    The distance and longing that has always found its way into the mood of their recordings now brims with hope rather than despair. It's a small but wonderful change in presentation that makes all the difference
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  3. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Frankly, it’s a bit of a corker
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  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Shelter is less of a progression and more of a magnification of the beauteous, gentile side of Alcest and a complete suppression of the blackness at the heart of the band
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  5. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    An eight-song, 45-minute escape to post-rock stratosphere searching
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    Musical movement aside, it's a gorgeous-sounding record, almost perfectly paced and balanced. Even in its self-conscious worship of shoegaze it could easily become a late addition in that genre's canon
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  7. 6.6 |   Pitchfork

    They’ve gone from being a remarkably innovative, influential, and singular force in a subgenre they helped create to being just another shoegaze act
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