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I really don't understand the hate. What do they do wrong? I hear nothing bad at all. Nothing to warrant intense hatred.
I fucking hate Alcest and Amesoeurs.
I would because they're fucking terrible.
I agree, I don't understand how you could think they're absolutely abhorrent unless you hate someone in the band, which makes it illogical to dislike the band as a whole.
There's nothing gay about it. The only people who think it's gay are, in fact, gay themselves and can't come up with any objective reason as to why it's bad, since it's played and arranged extremely well compared to just about any shoegaze, or even black metal, album. My favorite thing is when people try to say all of the songs sound alike, considering how different they all are from each other.
When I think of pop sensibilities in metal, I don't think of Vehemence
All the melodies are openly pop and alt-rock based and there's essentially nothing on the album that couldn't be heard on mainstream radio
Of course, there's no possible way that folky melodies could be used in pop music right? How silly of me to suggest the the clean guitar passages found in popular alternative rock songs resemble Alcest's newer material. And of course the very idea that such overtly gentle and melodic music could be found on the radio is equally silly, as is the related idea that both folk and alternative rock and pop could *possibly* carry some of the same melodic ideas.
I'll just get back in my shed now massa, your scale-checking is just too much for me.
It isn't better than Loveless, Souvlaki, Mezcal Head, Spooky, etc. but it IS good.