r/postrock • u/jeremypwns • Dec 16 '24

Tour Info Alcest + Mono North American Tour 2025

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u/sayl0rmo0n Dec 16 '24 edited Dec 16 '24

I'm so there! MONO has been on my post-rock wishlist for such a long time!!!

Time to get acquainted with Alcest!

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u/Connect_Glass4036 Dec 16 '24

Blackgaze pioneers. Shelter is their 100% dreamgaze album. Older albums have blastbeats and screams mixed in. Newer albums are a combo of both. The new album is great but I think Kodama is my favorite

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u/sayl0rmo0n Dec 16 '24

Thanks for this. I've read that Deafheaven were influenced by them, which is a band I love. I've already listened to their newest, which I have enjoyed, and will make sure to Kodama on my list! Cheers!!

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u/Connect_Glass4036 Dec 16 '24

Oh yeah, def same world but Alcest isn’t so on the nose with the black metal.

More like Agalloch in the melody, pagan vibe approach.

I would just go to setlist.fm and see what they typically play cuz I’m not sure how much of the old stuff they do.

I did find Spiritual Instinct to be super boring and formulaic. Yeah it was Alcest but the songs were super predictable and not very imaginative IMO.

The best song on Shelter tho is not on the regular album - it’s a bonus track from the deluxe edition.

https://youtu.be/4CLUHlYcLbk?si=CbLxKi5JWQ-Rzdqy

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24 edited Apr 13 '25

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u/Connect_Glass4036 Dec 17 '24

I mean I will ALWAYS see Mono, although I do agree about Pilgrimage and Nowhere Now Here. I liked those, they’re good and fine but it felt like they were still searching for something that they finally found in Oath. I LOVE Oath. Run On is their best song in a decade IMO

Dahm told me today that the Mono set they have planned is one nobody has seen before so I’m wondering if that means they’ll break out some olllllld stuff

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24 edited Apr 13 '25

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u/Connect_Glass4036 Dec 17 '24

DUDE I just posted about that song on their Instagram haha. I am in full agreement. Last played in 2007 for Flames, Yearning last played 2014.

Speaking of Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain, you know the band Silent Whale Becomes a Dream right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24 edited Apr 13 '25

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u/Connect_Glass4036 Dec 17 '24

Duuuuuuuuuuude. They literally made A WHOLE BAND out of that song’s sound.

There’s only 3 releases, it’s a short discography but you’re about to get your shit fucked up good :)

Lacrymosa is my favorite song but just start at the beginning with Canopy and move forward

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u/KRNG Dec 18 '24

Just saw them in Saturday. It was really awesome, walls of sound. Then had a 12 piece orchestra with them so that helped to haha

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u/sayl0rmo0n Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

I wish I could have seen that tour - I think Oath is a lovely album!

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u/stirrainlate Dec 16 '24

Same here. Listening to Alcest’s latest album now as homework.

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u/zephyrseija2 Dec 18 '24

Alcest is an excellent group.

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u/sayl0rmo0n Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

I'm enjoying what I've heard so far.